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The Enhancing Effect of Diminishing-Cues Retrieval Practice on the Learning of Difficult English Vocabulary. 消隐线索检索练习对英语高难词汇学习的促进作用。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-06-20 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10275-4

Kejia Qu, Yuqing Sun, Yutong Lei, Jiaxin Zhou

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Optimal Linguistic Input for Verb Learning in Young Spanish Learners: Single-word Utterances vs Multi-word Utterances. 青年西班牙语学习者动词学习的最佳语言输入：单字话语vs多字话语。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-06-20 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10271-8

Cynthia Pamela Audisio

{"title":"Optimal Linguistic Input for Verb Learning in Young Spanish Learners: Single-word Utterances vs Multi-word Utterances.","authors":"Cynthia Pamela Audisio","doi":"10.1007/s10936-026-10271-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10936-026-10271-8","url":null,"abstract":"The acquisition of verbs has long puzzled researchers in language development. Competing hypotheses address whether single-word utterances (SWUs) or multi-word utterances (MWUs) are more effective for early verb learning, with some accounts arguing that encountering words-and verbs in particular-in isolation has benefits (e.g., Brent & Siskind, 2001; Grimm et al., 2019; Lew-Williams et al., 2011; Ninio, 2015, 2016). This study examines the impact of verb uses in SWUs and MWUs on verb acquisition in Spanish-learning children aged 1;6 to 3;0. Longitudinal data from naturalistic interactions across nine CHILDES corpora were analyzed to assess the distribution of SWUs and MWUs, revealing that SWUs are overall less frequent and decrease with age. Study 1 modeled children's actual verb production as a function of input characteristics, showing that verbs appearing more frequently in SWUs were produced by a greater number of children over time-an effect that held across age intervals. In addition, verbs occurring more frequently in MWUs were initially less likely to emerge in the population, although this inhibitory effect diminished with age. Study 2, based on Spanish CDI data, revealed a different pattern: the proportion of verb uses in SWUs or MWUs did not independently predict verb production but instead moderated other effects, with MWUs favoring production at older ages, particularly for more frequent verbs. Thus, despite their relative infrequency in children's input, SWUs appear to play a crucial role in early verb learning, as evidenced by children's production data. CDI results further suggest that MWUs may become increasingly beneficial as children age; however, this finding warrants further investigation. Overall, these results contribute to ongoing discussions about optimal input conditions for early verb acquisition.","PeriodicalId":47689,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psycholinguistic Research","volume":"55 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148296907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Statistical Analysis of Human and AI Machine Translation Accuracy, Style, and Context in Academic English. 学术英语中人工和人工智能机器翻译的准确性、风格和语境的统计分析。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-06-20 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10274-5

Shi Beibei

{"title":"Statistical Analysis of Human and AI Machine Translation Accuracy, Style, and Context in Academic English.","authors":"Shi Beibei","doi":"10.1007/s10936-026-10274-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10936-026-10274-5","url":null,"abstract":"AI-driven Machine Translation (MT) technology has raised doubts about whether it can replace Human Translation (HT), particularly in the academic English field. This research contrasts AI-based MT and HT of academic English on accuracy, stylistic quality, errors, contextual appropriateness, and overall suitability. A quantitative comparative design was employed for the translation of eight Chinese texts with various genres. Using purposive sampling, 4 certified human translators were selected to produce the HT, and also used AI-based MT systems such as DeepL, ChatGPT, and Google Translate to translate the text. 69 experts evaluated the translated versions, and this data was examined using SPSS software. HT produced better performance than MT through mean accuracy, stylistic quality, contextual appropriateness, and overall suitability (Human: 4.76, AI: 3.73), revealed statistically significant differences (p < 0.001), and effect sizes (Cohen's d = 1.53 to 2.81). Compared to HT, the MT showed higher grammatical and semantic errors (Cohen's d = 2.81). The fluency, tone, and register of stylistic quality were evaluated at higher levels for HT (p < 0.001). Among AI-MT tools, DeepL shows higher performance in translation (M = 4.16, SD = 0.37). The genre-wide comparison of MT and professionally certified HT, and the comparison among multiple AI tools, towards various translation dimensions, provides insights into the differences in translating quality. The research indicates a continued reliance on human professionals for important scholarly translations while encouraging continued development in AI translation software for better quality.","PeriodicalId":47689,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psycholinguistic Research","volume":"55 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148296957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Effect of Semantic Radical Deformation on Abstract Semantic Radical Identity Representations: A Comparative Study of L1 speakers and L2 Learners. 语义根变形对抽象语义根同一性表征的影响：一语使用者和二语学习者的比较研究。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-06-19 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10253-w

Xuemei Ma, Tianlin Wang, Miao Yu, Ruolin Dai

{"title":"The Effect of Semantic Radical Deformation on Abstract Semantic Radical Identity Representations: A Comparative Study of L1 speakers and L2 Learners.","authors":"Xuemei Ma, Tianlin Wang, Miao Yu, Ruolin Dai","doi":"10.1007/s10936-026-10253-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10936-026-10253-w","url":null,"abstract":"Semantic radicals provide information on semantic categories and play a crucial role in the decoding and reading of Chinese characters for both native and non-native speakers. However, existing research has not sufficiently examined the representation of abstract semantic radical identity and has overlooked the degree of deformation as a factor. This study uses a masked-priming semantic judgement task (Experiment 1) and a same-different judgement task (Experiment 2) to investigate how the deformation degree of semantic radicals affects the Chinese learners' abstract representations of these radicals. Results from Experiment 1 indicate that for native speakers, the reaction time under identity prime is faster than that under control prime regardless of the degree of deformation. In contrast, second language learners only exhibit this advantage when the deformation degree is low, with no significant difference when the deformation degree is high, suggesting that deformation degree affects abstract semantic radical identity representations of L2 learners. Experiment 2 found inhibition effects under identity conditions for both native speakers and L2 learners, showing that both groups have mastered semantic radicals with a high deformation degree. These results indicate that the experimental task influences the results and that L2 learners are more affected by the task. Understanding the impact of semantic radical deformation on learners' abstract representational abilities helps teachers to adjust their pedagogical strategies in order to provide more precise guidance and recommendations for Chinese character instruction.","PeriodicalId":47689,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psycholinguistic Research","volume":"55 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148279248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Cross-Linguistic Conceptual Adaptation: Processing Structurally and Categorically Divergent Chinese-English Compounds. 跨语言概念适应：结构和范畴差异汉英复合词的加工。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-06-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10261-w

Wei Chen, Zhen Tian, Tianxue Mei

{"title":"Cross-Linguistic Conceptual Adaptation: Processing Structurally and Categorically Divergent Chinese-English Compounds.","authors":"Wei Chen, Zhen Tian, Tianxue Mei","doi":"10.1007/s10936-026-10261-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10936-026-10261-w","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores how bilinguals represent compound words that exhibit structural and conceptual divergence across languages. While previous research has focused on single-word translation equivalents, far less is known about the processing of morphologically complex forms, such as compound words, particularly when lexicalization patterns diverge across languages. Focusing on Chinese-English bilinguals, the study examines two types of translation-equivalent compounds: those with consistent syntactic structure but divergent head-category alignment, and those with schematic mismatches. Using a triadic similarity-rating task, two experiments assessed how monolingual and bilingual participants evaluated compound-image conceptual alignment. Monolinguals consistently favored language-congruent categories and schemas, while advanced Chinese-English learners showed more flexible patterns. Category-level mismatches elicited intermediate ratings, suggesting shifts in conceptual boundaries. In contrast, schematic mismatches led to dual alignment, reflecting sensitivity to morpheme position and functional structure. These findings suggest that bilinguals adapt to cross-linguistic inconsistency through conceptual adjustment and schematic negotiation. The degree and type of divergence modulate how lexical forms interface with conceptual categories, highlighting the need for bilingual lexical models to account for internal compound structure. This study extends current theories by demonstrating how structural variation across languages shapes bilingual conceptual representation, highlighting the need for lexical-semantic models to incorporate internal compound structure and cross-linguistic schematic divergence.","PeriodicalId":47689,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psycholinguistic Research","volume":"55 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148253874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Growth Language Mindset and Engagement in Foreign Language Classes: An Associational Perspective Integrating Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulated Learning. 成长性语言思维与外语课堂投入：自我效能感与自我调节学习的关联视角。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-06-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10266-5

Ngan Tran, Mike Yough

{"title":"Growth Language Mindset and Engagement in Foreign Language Classes: An Associational Perspective Integrating Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulated Learning.","authors":"Ngan Tran, Mike Yough","doi":"10.1007/s10936-026-10266-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10936-026-10266-5","url":null,"abstract":"The present study investigated the relationships between growth language mindset and behavioral, emotional, agentic, and cognitive engagement in foreign language learning. Additionally, it examined the role of self-efficacy for self-regulated learning in accounting for the connections between growth language mindset and the four dimensions of engagement. We collected data from 354 undergraduate students at a large foreign language institution in Vietnam. Data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling and interpreted within an Associational Variable Analysis framework, with bootstrapping for assessing indirect associations. The results indicated that a growth language mindset was significantly associated with behavioral, emotional, and agentic engagement with small effect sizes, and with cognitive engagement with a moderate effect size. Self-efficacy for self-regulated learning fully accounted for the associations between growth language mindset and behavioral, emotional, and agentic engagement, and partially accounted for the association with cognitive engagement. The study unraveled the shared and unique relationships among the two self-beliefs and the four dimensions of engagement, highlighting a potential avenue for formal exploration of mediational hypotheses that examine self-efficacy in taking control of learning as a mechanism linking language-related self-beliefs and investment in foreign language learning.","PeriodicalId":47689,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psycholinguistic Research","volume":"55 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148253960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Effect of Orthographic Neighbourhood and Semantics on Lexical Processing in a Transparent Orthographic Language: A Pupilometry Study. 正字法邻域和语义对透明正字法语言词汇加工的影响：瞳孔测量研究。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-06-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10267-4

Hazal Artuvan Korkmaz, Özgür Aydın

{"title":"The Effect of Orthographic Neighbourhood and Semantics on Lexical Processing in a Transparent Orthographic Language: A Pupilometry Study.","authors":"Hazal Artuvan Korkmaz, Özgür Aydın","doi":"10.1007/s10936-026-10267-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10936-026-10267-4","url":null,"abstract":"A word's neighborhood comprises orthographically similar words, yet neighborhood effects in transparent orthographies remain theoretically underspecified. We investigated how lexical status and orthographic distance modulate cognitive effort using pupil dilation during silent reading. Pupillary responses from thirty-four adults were analyzed using a combination of Linear Mixed-Effects models and Generalized Additive Mixed Models across real words (RWs), low-distance pseudowords (PWs), and high-distance nonwords (NWs). Results revealed a temporal hierarchy and a double dissociation between lexical and orthographic processing. Specifically, the lexicality effect (RW > PW) emerged early (1333-2667 ms), reflecting the sustained cognitive load of semantic integration and global activation once lexical access is achieved. In contrast, the orthographic neighborhood effect (PW > NW) appeared at a later stage (2152-2727 ms), manifesting as a delayed peak that reflects the intense lateral inhibition required to suppress competing lexical candidates in PWs. While RWs trigger faster but deeper semantic processing, PWs result in a delayed response reflecting the difficulty of resolving competition among orthographically similar forms. These dynamics refine neighborhood theories by demonstrating that pupillometry can dissociate early-stage semantic activation from late-stage inhibitory control driven by orthographic similarity.","PeriodicalId":47689,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psycholinguistic Research","volume":"55 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13264559/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148253927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Correction: An Eye-Tracking Study on the Interword Spacing Effect in Arabic. 更正：阿拉伯语行间词间距效应的眼动追踪研究。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-06-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10251-y

Tommi Tsz-Cheung Leung, Fatima Boush, Meera Al Kaabi

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Predicting Recognition of Emotional Prosody Based on Facial Emotional Recognition and Age in Persian Speakers. 基于面部情绪识别和年龄的波斯语使用者情绪韵律识别预测。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-06-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10262-9

Susan Alizadehfard, Belghis Rovshan, Shima Ghafarian

{"title":"Predicting Recognition of Emotional Prosody Based on Facial Emotional Recognition and Age in Persian Speakers.","authors":"Susan Alizadehfard, Belghis Rovshan, Shima Ghafarian","doi":"10.1007/s10936-026-10262-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10936-026-10262-9","url":null,"abstract":"This study offers a novel contribution to psycholinguistic research by examining how facial emotion recognition predicts the perception of emotional prosody in an unfamiliar language, with a specific focus on Persian speakers and age-related effects. While previous studies have often investigated prosody and facial cues separately, the present work integrates these domains to provide new insights into multimodal social cognition. A total of 210 Persian-speaking adults aged 20-65, divided into three 15-year age groups, completed a computer-based task consisting of visual and auditory components. In the auditory section, 30 emotionally intoned sentences in Greek, representing happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust, were presented. In the visual section, participants viewed 20 morphed facial expressions displaying the same emotions at varying intensities. Regression analyses revealed that emotional prosody recognition was significantly predicted by facial emotion recognition (p < .01), and by age only in the group over 50 years old (p < .01). These findings highlight the novelty of linking cross-linguistic prosody processing with facial emotion recognition and suggest that age-related changes in prosody recognition may reflect cognitive changes in later adulthood. The results underscore the predictive role of facial cues in social cognition and provide implications for understanding age-related differences in social communication.","PeriodicalId":47689,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psycholinguistic Research","volume":"55 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148144946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Impact of Scaffolding on Academic Achievement in Undergraduate Emergency Language Courses. 框架教学对大学生应急语言课程学习成绩的影响。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10254-9

An Zhu, Jian-Hong Ye

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