How To Learn A New Language

Read our collection of free articles created as a companion to the BPS PsychCrunch podcast Episode 5: How To Learn A New Language
How to Learn a New Language
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Consolidation of novel word learning in native English-speaking adults
- Memory
- Laura B. F. Kurdziel & Rebecca M. C. Spencer
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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
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Cue strength in second-language processing: An eye-tracking study
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Alba Tuninetti, Tessa Warren, & Natasha Tokowicz
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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
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Developmental changes associated with cross-language similarity in bilingual children
- Journal of Cognitive Psychology
- Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, Lela Ivaz & Aina Casaponsa
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Emerging literacy in adult second-language learners: A synthesis of research findings in the Netherlands
- Writing Systems Research
- Jeanne Kurvers
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Enhancing the learning of new words using an errorless learning procedure: Evidence from typical adults
- Memory
- Meesha Warmington & Graham J. Hitch
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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
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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
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Following Roba: What happens when a low-educated adult immigrant learns to read
- Writing Systems Research
- Nicole M. Pettitt & Elaine Tarone
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Growth in working memory and inhibition predicts literacy in English language learners: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study
- Memory
- H. Lee Swanson
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Hemispheric asymmetry of emotion words in a non-native mind: A divided visual field study
- Laterality
- Rafał Jończyk
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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
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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
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Is prediction necessary to understand language? Probably not
- Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
- Falk Huettig & Nivedita Mani
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Language control and the neuroanatomy of bilingualism: in praise of variety
- Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
- David W Green & Jubin Abutalebi
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Language experience and the brain: variability, neuroplasticity, and bilingualism
- Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
- Judith F. Kroll & Christine Chiarello
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Language lateralization shifts with learning by adults
- Laterality
- Elena Plante, Kyle Almryde, Dianne K. Patterson, Christopher J. Vance & Arve E. Asbjørnsen
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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
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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
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Lexical organization of language-ambiguous and language-specific words in bilinguals
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Aina Casaponsa & Jon Andoni Duñabeitia
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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
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Masked translation priming asymmetry in Chinese-English bilinguals: Making sense of the Sense Model
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Violet Xia & Sally Andrews
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Retrieval of bilingual autobiographical memories: Effects of cue language and cue imageability
- Memory
- Linda Mortensen, Dorthe Berntsen & Ocke-Schwen Bohn
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Semantic and phonological influences on visual word learning in a transparent language
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Paz Suárez-Coalla & Fernando Cuetos
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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
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Studying the mechanisms of language learning by varying the learning environment and thelearner
- Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
- Susan Goldin-Meadow
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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
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The impact of music on learning and consolidation of novel words
- Memory
- Jakke Tamminen, Kathleen Rastle, Jess Darby, Rebecca Lucas & Victoria J. Williamson
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The importance of language use when studying the neuroanatomical basis of bilingualism
- Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
- Angela de Bruin & Sergio Della Sala
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The influence of second language proficiency on bilingual parallel language activation in Hindi–English bilinguals
- Journal of Cognitive Psychology
- Ramesh Kumar Mishra & Niharika Singh
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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
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The neuroanatomy of bilingualism: will winds of change lift the fog?
- Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
- Kenneth R Paap
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The role of phonotactic principles in language processing
- Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
- Christiane Ulbrich, Phillip M. Alday, Johannes Knaus, Paula Orzechowska & Richard Wiese
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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
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The simultaneous development of receptive skills in an orthographically transparent second language
- Writing Systems Research
- Taina Tammelin-Laine& Maisa Martin
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Understanding the consequences of bilingualism for language processing and cognition
- Journal of Cognitive Psychology
- Judith F. Kroll & Ellen Bialystok
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Visual word learning in skilled readers of English
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Rosa Kit Wan Kwok & Andrew W. Ellis
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Voluntary language switching in English–Spanish bilingual children
- Journal of Cognitive Psychology
- Megan Gross & Margarita Kaushanskaya
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When language comprehension goes wrong for the right reasons: Good-enough, underspecified, or shallow language processing
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Kiel Christianson
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