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Garg, A., Piai, V., Takashima, A., McQueen, J. M., & Roelofs, A. (2019). Linking production and comprehension – Investigating the lexical interface. Poster presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2019), Helsinki, Finland.
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Hintz, F., Jongman, S. R., Dijkhuis, M., Van 't Hoff, V., McQueen, J. M., & Meyer, A. S. (2019). Assessing individual differences in language processing: A novel research tool. Talk presented at the 21st Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2019). Tenerife, Spain. 2019-09-25 - 2019-09-28.
Abstract
Individual differences in language processing are prevalent in our daily lives. However, for decades, psycholinguistic research has largely ignored variation in the normal range of abilities. Recently, scientists have begun to acknowledge the importance of inter-individual variability for a comprehensive characterization of the language system. In spite of this change of attitude, empirical research on individual differences is still sparse, which is in part due to the lack of a suitable research tool. Here, we present a novel battery of behavioral tests for assessing individual differences in language skills in younger adults. The Dutch prototype comprises 29 subtests and assesses many aspects of language knowledge (grammar and vocabulary), linguistic processing skills (word and sentence level) and general cognitive abilities involved in using language (e.g., WM, IQ). Using the battery, researchers can determine performance profiles for individuals and link them to neurobiological or genetic data. -
Jager, L., Witteman, J., McQueen, J. M., & Schiller, N. O. (2019). Can brain potentials reflect L2 learning potential?. Poster presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2019), Helsinki, Finland.
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Mickan, A., McQueen, J. M., & Lemhöfer, K. (2019). New in, old out? Does learning a new foreign language make you forget previously learned foreign languages?. Talk presented at the third Vocab@ conference. Leuven, Belgium. 2019-07-01 - 2019-07-03.
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Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2007). Lexical-stress information rapidly modulates spoken-word recognition. Talk presented at Dag van de Fonetiek. Utrecht, The Netherlands. 2007-12-20 - 2007-12-20.
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Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2007). Tracking over time how lexical stress information modulates spoken word recognition. Poster presented at 11th Winter Conference of the Dutch Psychonomic Society, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.
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Sjerps, M. J., & McQueen, J. M. (2007). Nonnative phonemes are open to native interpretation: A perceptual learning study. Poster presented at 154th Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA.
Abstract
Four experiments examined whether Dutch listeners can learn to interpret a nonnative phoneme (English [\phontheta]) as an instance of a native category (Dutch [f] or [s]). During exposure in Experiment 1, two listener groups made lexical decisions to words and nonwords. Listeners heard [\phontheta] replacing [f] in 20 [f]-final words (Group 1), or [s] in 20 [s]-final words (Group 2). At test, participants heard e.g. [do\phontheta], based on the minimal pair doof/doos (deaf/box), and made visual lexical decisions to e.g. doof or doos. Group 1 were faster on doof decisions after [do\phontheta] than after an unrelated prime; Group 2 were faster on doos decisions. The groups had thus learned that [\phontheta] was, respectively, [f] or [s]. This learning was thorough: effects were just as large when the exposure sound was an ambiguous [fs]-mixture (Experiment 2) and when the test primes contained unambiguous [f] or [s] (Experiment 3). In Experiment 4, signal-correlated noise was used as the exposure sound. Listeners learned that the noise was an [f], irrespective of [f]- or [s]-biased exposure, showing that learning is determined by the new sound’s spectral characteristics. Perceptual learning in a native language is thorough, and can override years of second-language phonetic learning.
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