How To Learn A New Language

How to Learn a New Language

• A linguist looks at AAC: Language representation systems for augmentative and alternative communication, compared with writing systems and natural language

  • Writing Systems Research
  • Carol Tenny

• A new look at “the hard problem” of bilingual lexical access: evidence for language-switch costs with univalent stimuli

  • Journal of Cognitive Psychology
  • L. Robert Slevc, Nicholas S. Davey & Jared A. Linck

• Are there qualitative differences in the representation of abstract and concrete words? Within-language and cross-language evidence from the semantic priming paradigm

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Pilar Ferré, Marc Guasch, Teófilo García-Chico & Rosa Sánchez-Casas

• Better early or late? Examining the influence of age of exposure and language proficiency on executive function in early and late bilinguals

  • Journal of Cognitive Psychology
  • Vrinda Kalia, Makeba Parramore Wilbourn & Kathleen Ghio

• Consolidation of novel word learning in native English-speaking adults

  • Memory
  • Laura B. F. Kurdziel & Rebecca M. C. Spencer

• Contextual learning of L2 word meanings: second language proficiency modulates behavioural and event-related brain potential (ERP) indicators of learning

  • Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
  • Irina Elgort, Charles A. Perfetti, Ben Rickles & Joseph Z. Stafura

• Cue strength in second-language processing: An eye-tracking study

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Alba Tuninetti, Tessa Warren, & Natasha Tokowicz

• Decision-making and the framing effect in a foreign and native language

  • Journal of Cognitive Psychology
  • Heather Winskel, Theeraporn Ratitamkul, Victoria Brambley, Tulaya Nagarachinda & Sutheemar Tiencharoen

• Developmental changes associated with cross-language similarity in bilingual children

  • Journal of Cognitive Psychology
  • Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, Lela Ivaz & Aina Casaponsa

• Emerging literacy in adult second-language learners: A synthesis of research findings in the Netherlands

  • Writing Systems Research
  • Jeanne Kurvers

• Enhancing the learning of new words using an errorless learning procedure: Evidence from typical adults

  • Memory
  • Meesha Warmington & Graham J. Hitch

• Environmental script affects lateral asymmetry of word recognition: A study of French–Hebrew bilinguals tested in Israel and in France

  • Laterality
  • Eric Siéroff & Nathalie Haehnel-Benoliel

• Examining procedural learning and corticostriatal pathways for individual differences in language: testing endophenotypes of DRD2/ANKK1

  • Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
  • Joanna C. Lee, Kathryn L. Mueller & J. Bruce Tomblin

• Following Roba: What happens when a low-educated adult immigrant learns to read

  • Writing Systems Research
  • Nicole M. Pettitt & Elaine Tarone

• Growth in working memory and inhibition predicts literacy in English language learners: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study

  • Memory
  • H. Lee Swanson

• Hemispheric asymmetry of emotion words in a non-native mind: A divided visual field study

  • Laterality
  • Rafał Jończyk

• Impaired laryngeal voice production in a patient with foreign accent syndrome

  • Neurocase
  • Yasuhisa Sakurai, Kenji Itoh, Keiko Sai, Seitetsu Lee, Shoko Abe, Yasuo Terao & Toru Mannen

• Improvement of language functions in a chronic non-fluent post-stroke aphasic patient following bilateral sequential theta burst magnetic stimulation

  • Neurocase
  • Jasmina Vuksanović, Milan B. Jelić, Sladjan D. Milanović, Katarina Kačar, Ljubica Konstantinović & Saša R. Filipović

• Is prediction necessary to understand language? Probably not

  • Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
  • Falk Huettig & Nivedita Mani

• Language control and the neuroanatomy of bilingualism: in praise of variety

  • Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
  • David W Green & Jubin Abutalebi

• Language experience and the brain: variability, neuroplasticity, and bilingualism

  • Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
  • Judith F. Kroll & Christine Chiarello

• Language lateralization shifts with learning by adults

  • Laterality
  • Elena Plante, Kyle Almryde, Dianne K. Patterson, Christopher J. Vance & Arve E. Asbjørnsen

• Laterality across languages: Results from a global dichotic listening study using a smartphone application

  • Laterality
  • Josef J. Bless, René Westerhausen, Janne von Koss Torkildsen, Magne Gudmundsen, Kristiina Kompus & Kenneth Hugdahl

• Lending a hand to signed language acquisition: Enactment and iconicity enhance sign recall in hearing adult American Sign Language learners

  • Journal of Cognitive Psychology
  • Laura M. Morett

• Lexical organization of language-ambiguous and language-specific words in bilinguals

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Aina Casaponsa & Jon Andoni Duñabeitia

• Lexical processing of nominal compounds in first- and second-language learners across primary grades

  • Writing Systems Research
  • Marlies de Zeeuw, Robert Schreuder & Ludo T. W. Verhoeven

• Masked translation priming asymmetry in Chinese-English bilinguals: Making sense of the Sense Model

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Violet Xia & Sally Andrews

• Morphological learning in a novel language: A cross-language comparison

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Viktória Havas, Otto Waris, Lucía Vaquero, Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells & Matti Laine

• Native reading direction influences lateral biases in the perception of shape from shading

  • Laterality
  • Austen K. Smith, Izabela Szelest, Trista E. Friedrich & Lorin J. Elias

• Native language influence on the distributive effect in producing second language subject–verb agreement

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Xiaoyan Wei, Baoguo Chen, Lijuan Liang & Susan Dunlap

• Power of language ideologies: Challenging the notion of foreign loanwords in Japanese-as-a-foreign-language classroom

  • Writing Systems Research
  • Neriko Musha Doerr & Yuri Kumagai

• Recovery of language function in Korean-Japanese crossed bilingual aphasia following right basal ganglia hemorrhage

  • Neurocase
  • Boram Lee, Hyun Im Moon, Sung Hee Lim, Hyesuk Cho, Hyunjoo Choi & Sung-Bom Pyun

• Retrieval of bilingual autobiographical memories: Effects of cue language and cue imageability

  • Memory
  • Linda Mortensen, Dorthe Berntsen & Ocke-Schwen Bohn

• Semantic and phonological influences on visual word learning in a transparent language

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Paz Suárez-Coalla & Fernando Cuetos

• Stability of right visual field advantage in an international lateralized lexical decision task irrespective of participants’ sex, handedness or bilingualism

  • Laterality
  • Julie Willemin, Markus Hausmann, Marc Brysbaert, Nele Dael, Florian Chmetz, Asia Fioravera, Kamila Gieruc & Christine Mohr

• Studying the mechanisms of language learning by varying the learning environment and thelearner

  • Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
  • Susan Goldin-Meadow

• The effect of presentation rate on foreign-language vocabulary learning

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • René Zeelenberg, Mario de Jonge, Huib K. Tabbers & Diane Pecher

• The impact of music on learning and consolidation of novel words

  • Memory
  • Jakke Tamminen, Kathleen Rastle, Jess Darby, Rebecca Lucas & Victoria J. Williamson

• The importance of language use when studying the neuroanatomical basis of bilingualism

  • Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
  • Angela de Bruin & Sergio Della Sala

• The influence of second language proficiency on bilingual parallel language activation in Hindi–English bilinguals

  • Journal of Cognitive Psychology
  • Ramesh Kumar Mishra & Niharika Singh

• The neuroanatomy of bilingualism: how to turn a hazy view into the full picture

  • Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
  • Lorna García-Pentón, Yuriem Fernández García, Brendan Costello, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia & Manuel Carreirasa

• The neuroanatomy of bilingualism: will winds of change lift the fog?

  • Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
  • Kenneth R Paap

• The role of phonotactic principles in language processing

  • Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
  • Christiane Ulbrich, Phillip M. Alday, Johannes Knaus, Paula Orzechowska & Richard Wiese

• The role of verbal and pictorial information in multimodal incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Marie-Josée Bisson, Walter J. B. van Heuven, Kathy Conklin & Richard J. Tunney

• The simultaneous development of receptive skills in an orthographically transparent second language

  • Writing Systems Research
  • Taina Tammelin-Laine& Maisa Martin

• Understanding the consequences of bilingualism for language processing and cognition

  • Journal of Cognitive Psychology
  • Judith F. Kroll & Ellen Bialystok

• Visual word learning in skilled readers of English

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Rosa Kit Wan Kwok & Andrew W. Ellis

• Voluntary language switching in English–Spanish bilingual children

  • Journal of Cognitive Psychology
  • Megan Gross & Margarita Kaushanskaya

• When language comprehension goes wrong for the right reasons: Good-enough, underspecified, or shallow language processing

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Kiel Christianson