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Uyghur–Chinese early successive adult bilinguals’ construal of caused motion events 维吾尔汉早期连续成人双语者对诱发运动事件的解释

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-03-27 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.7

Alimujiang Tusun

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Breaking the ice in a conversation: abstract words prompt dialogs more easily than concrete ones 打破对话中的僵局：抽象的单词比具体的单词更容易提示对话

IF 1.8 3区心理学

Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-03-10 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.3

Chiara Fini, Ilenia Falcinelli, Giovanna Cuomo, V. Era, M. Candidi, Luca Tummolini, C. Mazzuca, A. Borghi

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How flexible is the orthographic processing of flankers? Effects for letter order and letter identification 侧板的正字法加工有多灵活?对字母顺序和字母识别的影响

IF 1.8 3区心理学

Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-03-10 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.5

Miguel Lázaro, Lorena García, Víctor Illera

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The semantic representation of food is shaped by cultural experience 食物的语义表征是由文化经验塑造的

IF 1.8 3区心理学

Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-03-07 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.4

C. Mazzuca, A. Majid

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引用次数: 2

Representations of numerals in Tibetan–Mandarin bilinguals 藏普通话双语者的数字表征

IF 1.8 3区心理学

Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-02-23 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.2

Haibin Han, Ning An, Xinlin Zhou, Zhanling Cui

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The age of acquisition effect in processing second language words and its relationship with the age of acquisition of the first language 第二语言词汇加工中的习得年龄效应及其与第一语言习得年龄的关系

IF 1.8 3区心理学

Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-01-13 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2022.40

Jue Wang, Lijuan Liang, Baoguo Chen

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Valence sound symbolism across language families: a comparison between Japanese and German 语族间的价音象征:日语和德语的比较

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2022-12-13 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2022.39

Anita Körner, R. Rummer

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Big-Five model of personality and word formation: role of open-mindedness in semantic transparency and economy of expression 人格大五模型与构词法:开放性在语义透明性和表达经济性中的作用

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2022-12-12 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2022.34

Pavol Kačmár, L. Körtvélyessy

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Vocal iconicity in nominal classification 名词分类中的声乐象似性

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2022-12-12 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2022.36

Niklas Erben Johansson, Sandra Cronhamn

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IF 1.8 3区心理学

Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2022-12-12 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2022.37

Er-Hu Zhang, Jiaxin Li, Defeng Li, Yiqiang Chen, Xin-Dong Zhang, Xinyi Wang, Hong-Wen Cao

{"title":"An event-related potential study of cross-modal translation recognition in Chinese–English bilinguals: the role of cross-linguistic orthography and phonology","authors":"Er-Hu Zhang, Jiaxin Li, Defeng Li, Yiqiang Chen, Xin-Dong Zhang, Xinyi Wang, Hong-Wen Cao","doi":"10.1017/langcog.2022.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2022.37","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Extensive evidence has demonstrated that bilinguals non-selectively activate lexicons of both languages when reading or hearing words in one language. Here, we further investigated the electrophysiological roles of cross-linguistic orthography and phonology in the processing of L2 spoken words in unbalanced Chinese (L1)–English (L2) bilinguals in a cross-modal situation. Relative to unrelated control, the recognition of auditory L2 words showed behavioral interference effects when paired with orthographic or phonological neighbors of the correct translations of L2 words. Moreover, the lexical effects were also exhibited in the electrophysiological data, as reflected by marginally less positive late positive component (500–800 ms) amplitudes in the frontal region. Importantly, the orthographic rather than phonological translation neighbor condition elicited less negative N400 (300–500 ms) amplitudes in the parietal–occipital regions, suggesting that this orthographic translation neighbor condition facilitated the co-activation of spoken L2 words. Taken together, these findings indicate that cross-linguistic orthographic and phonological activation have different temporal dynamics with both bottom-up parallel cross-linguistic activation and the top-down inhibitory control mechanism governing the two-language lexical organization in L2 spoken word recognition.","PeriodicalId":45880,"journal":{"name":"Language and Cognition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43987852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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