Explaining Cross-Language Asymmetries in Prosodic Processing: The Cue-Driven Window Length Hypothesis

Assessing aspectual asymmetries in human language processing

This paper reports reaction time studies on aspect processing, and highlights that aspectual asymmetries (perfective vs. imperfective facilitation) in terms of reaction time is dependent on verb types.

Construction Driven Language Processing

The [he3-sing-male-human-pron]nominal construction encodes the knowledge that pronouns like “he” (3 person, singular, male, human) function as full nominals, encoding both a referential specifier function and an objective head function (see Ball, 2005, “A Bi-Polar Theory of Nominal and Clause Structure and Function”, this proceedings). The [be3-pressing]verb construction encodes the status of “...

Patchy Connectivity and Visual Processing Asymmetries: A Neuro-developmental Hypothesis

Acoustic Landmarks and Prosodic Asymmetries

The CV transition (or PIVOT) is an area at which the maximum of new spectral information coincides with rapidly rising intensity. These acoustic characteristics of PIVOTs are among the most salient events in speech [1,2]. It has been shown [3] that spectral changes whose response in the auditory nerve is predominantly an onset of firing (like in the CV transition) are much more perceptually sal...

Cross-Linguistic Transfer or Target Language Proficiency: Writing Performance of Trilinguals vs. Bilinguals in Relation to the Interdependence Hypothesis

This study explored the nature of transfer among bilingual vs. trilinguals with varying levels of competence in English and their previous languages. The hypotheses were tested in writing tasks designed for 75 high (N= 35) vs. intermediate (N=40) proficient EFL learners with Turkish, Persian, English and Persian, English linguistic backgrounds. Qualitative data were also collected through some ...