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Unaccusativity and Grammatical Aspect: A Cross-Modal Lexical Priming Study. 非宾格性与语法方面：跨模态词汇启动研究。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10221-4

Nermina Čordalija, Roelien Bastiaanse, Toivo Glatz, Seçkin Arslan, Srđan Popov

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Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCo): An Extension of Normative Data to Elderly Individuals. 沟通评估电池（ABaCo）：规范数据对老年人的扩展。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10264-7

Romina Angeleri, Ilaria Gabbatore, Ariele Merlini, Francesca M Bosco

{"title":"Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCo): An Extension of Normative Data to Elderly Individuals.","authors":"Romina Angeleri, Ilaria Gabbatore, Ariele Merlini, Francesca M Bosco","doi":"10.1007/s10936-026-10264-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10936-026-10264-7","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to update and expand the normative data for the Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCo) to include older adults. As the population continues to age, comprehensive assessments of pragmatic ability become increasingly important, as deficits in this area can significantly impair social functioning. The ABaCo is a validated instrument designed to evaluate communicative-pragmatic ability in individuals with brain injuries, as well as neuropsychological and psychiatric disorders. Previously published normative data covered individuals aged 15 to 75 years. In this study, we present updated norms for that age range, based on an Italian enlarged sample (N = 409), and provide additional normative data for individuals aged 75 to 86 years (N = 33). Given that prior research has shown ABaCo performance declines with age and lower educational attainment, the normative data were stratified by both age and education level. Accurate identification of pragmatic-communicative impairments is essential in clinical settings, especially for the development of targeted interventions. These extended norms aim to improve the clinical utility and diagnostic accuracy of the ABaCo.","PeriodicalId":47689,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psycholinguistic Research","volume":"55 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13226326/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148139321","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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Differences in the Semantic Content of Abstract and Concrete Words: Evidence from a Linguistic Feature Analysis. 抽象词与具体词语义内容的差异：来自语言特征分析的证据。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10252-x

Zhao Yao, Yu Chai, Xinle Huang, Peiying Yang, Rong Zhao

{"title":"Differences in the Semantic Content of Abstract and Concrete Words: Evidence from a Linguistic Feature Analysis.","authors":"Zhao Yao, Yu Chai, Xinle Huang, Peiying Yang, Rong Zhao","doi":"10.1007/s10936-026-10252-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10936-026-10252-x","url":null,"abstract":"Although much is known about the differences in representation and processing between abstract and concrete words, few studies have investigated this issue from the perspective of linguistic feature analysis. In this article, we first analyze the differences in semantic content between abstract and concrete words according to four linguistic properties: Activity (Q), linguistic category model (LCM), moving average type-token ratio (MATTR), and second thematic concentration (STC), when performing a lexical definition task in Experiment 1. We then employed a lexical decision task in Experiment 2 to further investigate whether these four linguistic features could predict the differences in behavioral performance (i.e., response times and accuracy) between abstract and concrete words. The results of Experiment 1 show that, compared to concrete words, the semantic content of abstract words involves fewer action-related expressions (lower Q), greater psychological distance (higher LCM), and less lexical diversity (lower MATTR), but no significant difference in STC between the two. The results of Experiment 2 indicate that concrete words are responded faster than abstract words, and that the Q, LCM, and MATTR can significantly predict their recognition performance. These results suggest that linguistic features can effectively quantify and distinguish the semantic content of abstract and concrete words. This finding increases the possibility of using quantitative linguistic methods to study the semantic content of words at a text level.","PeriodicalId":47689,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psycholinguistic Research","volume":"55 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148139339","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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Validation of Hindi and English ironic sentences for bilingual comprehension research. 印地语和英语反讽句在双语理解研究中的验证。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10237-w

Utkarsh Shukla, Niharika Singh

{"title":"Validation of Hindi and English ironic sentences for bilingual comprehension research.","authors":"Utkarsh Shukla, Niharika Singh","doi":"10.1007/s10936-026-10237-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10936-026-10237-w","url":null,"abstract":"Irony is a complex communicative device that contrasts the explicit, literal meaning with the implicit intent and is sensitive to cultural and linguistic context. Despite growing interest in bilingual irony comprehension, experimentally validated materials for non-Western bilinguals remain scarce. This study addresses this methodological gap by adapting and validating a bilingual set of ironic and literal stimuli in Hindi and English, suitable for investigating psycholinguistic processing in Hindi-English bilingual adults. Drawing on established English-language irony sets, the stimuli were structurally adapted and culturally localised, then translated and back-translated by native speakers. A rigorous validation procedure involving 60 Hindi-English bilinguals assessed familiarity, comprehension, clarity, ironic intent, and translation quality for each text using a five-point Likert scale. Statistical analyses revealed high familiarity, clarity, and comprehensibility across both languages, with ironic stimuli consistently rated as highly perceived for irony and literal stimuli rated as low. The final materials comprise 50 irony-literal sentence pairs and 10 fillers, offering a tightly controlled stimulus set for future controlled cross-linguistic investigation. This research provides a methodological foundation for investigating figurative language processing in bilinguals and advances understanding of pragmatic competence across diverse sociolinguistic contexts.","PeriodicalId":47689,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psycholinguistic Research","volume":"55 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148139312","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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Visual Attention and Linguistic Preferences in Time-Telling: A Cross-Linguistic Study of German, Czech, and Russian Speakers. 讲时间的视觉注意和语言偏好：对德语、捷克语和俄语使用者的跨语言研究。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10234-z

Elena Panfilova, Barbara Mertins

{"title":"Visual Attention and Linguistic Preferences in Time-Telling: A Cross-Linguistic Study of German, Czech, and Russian Speakers.","authors":"Elena Panfilova, Barbara Mertins","doi":"10.1007/s10936-026-10234-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10936-026-10234-z","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates how speakers’ initial fixations on analog clock regions (minute vs. hour hand) align with the production of relative and absolute time expressions in German, Czech, and Russian. Building on previous research on linguistic preferences in time‑telling, we tested whether fixation patterns primarily reflect syntactic word order, language‑specific expression preferences, or the interaction of both factors. Eye‑tracking data revealed broadly similar fixation patterns across languages for relative expressions: all groups tended to fixate first on the minute hand, consistent with syntactic structure and incremental planning models of language production by Levelt (Speaking: From Intention to Articulation. The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1989). In contrast, different patterns emerged for absolute expressions. Russian speakers showed a significantly stronger hour-first fixation pattern, consistent with the syntactic structure of absolute time expressions (“hour before minute”). German and Czech participants, however, distributed their initial fixations almost evenly across both areas of interest (minute‑hand and hour‑hand regions), suggesting that their strong habitual preference for relative expressions may attenuate syntactic ordering effects when producing less familiar absolute constructions. We interpret these findings as indicating that visual attention during speech production is shaped not only by syntactic structure (i.e., the structural order of time expressions such as hour-first vs. minute-first) but also by habitual language use. Our results highlight how cognitive processes such as visual attention interact dynamically with language use across cultural contexts.","PeriodicalId":47689,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psycholinguistic Research","volume":"55 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13226393/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148139374","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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Retraction Note: Psychological Impact of Languages on the Human Mind: Research on the Contribution of Psycholinguistics Approach to Teaching and Learning English. 语言对人类心理的影响：心理语言学方法对英语教学的贡献研究。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-05-29 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10265-6

Shi Beibei

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The Processing of English Applicative Constructions: Evidence from Eye-Tracking. 英语应用结构的加工：来自眼动追踪的证据。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-05-27 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10263-8

Yuxi Li, Tao Zeng

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Formula Production and its Relation to General Language Ability in Mandarin-Speaking Autistic Children. 普通话自闭症儿童配方生产及其与一般语言能力的关系。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-05-25 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10232-1

Fan Xie, Xiaolu Wang, Esther Pascual, Greta Mazzaggio

{"title":"Formula Production and its Relation to General Language Ability in Mandarin-Speaking Autistic Children.","authors":"Fan Xie, Xiaolu Wang, Esther Pascual, Greta Mazzaggio","doi":"10.1007/s10936-026-10232-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10936-026-10232-1","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the production of Mandarin prefabricated verbal formulae (i.e., a multiword or single-word linguistic expression that is stored and retrieved holistically as a unit from memory, rather than being generated through real-time rule-based composition) in autistic children (i.e., children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, ASD). Examples of such entrenchments are ritualized socio-cultural emblems (e.g., “Happy birthday!”) and socio-communicative formulae (e.g., “Nice to meet you”). Prior studies have shown that such formulaic sequences may be pragmatically functional in adult speech, child speech, and language pathology (e.g., in aphasia). However, verbal formulae have barely been studied in autism speech. Using an elicitation study with visual stimuli, we compared the production of formulae by Mandarin-speaking high-verbal (n = 41) and low-verbal (n = 22) children with ASD. Results showed that most formulae (~ 90%) produced by both groups were ritualized conversational sequences directly associated with the target stimuli images. The study revealed that high-verbal children with ASD produced significantly more conventional, contextually relevant, and syntactically complex formulaic expressions than low-verbal counterparts (all p < 0.01, d = 0.69–1.18), highlighting their stronger structured language skills. However, both groups showed minimal and comparable use of variant or idiosyncratic formulae (p > 0.05), suggesting shared constraints in flexible language use. Formulaic language positively predicted vocabulary (β = 0.22) and grammatical abilities (β = 0.18), but only when used verbatim or contextually, indicating its scaffolding role in ASD language development.","PeriodicalId":47689,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psycholinguistic Research","volume":"55 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148018272","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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Retraction Note: Measuring the Success of Global Sports Governance: A Deep Trust Network Model Approach. 撤回注：衡量全球体育治理的成功：深度信任网络模型方法。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-04-15 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10248-7

Zhongyi Fan, Jiandong Yi

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Retraction Note: Shocktainment Techniques in the Mirror, a British Daily Tabloid: Linguocultural Features of news and semantic-cognitive Analysis of Leading Concepts. 撤回注：英国小报《镜报》的搞笑技巧：新闻的语言文化特征和主导概念的语义认知分析。

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2026-04-15 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-026-10250-z

Mariya Fedorova, Tatyana Shevyakova

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