The purpose of the current study was to explore if and how additional-language learners may show changes in phraseological patterns over course a stay target-language environment. In particular, we focused on noun+adjective combinations produced by group speakers French at three points time, spanning 21 months including an academic year France. We extracted each combination from longitudinal co...

Previous research has demonstrated that increases in phonotactic probability facilitate spoken word processing, whereas increased competition among lexical representations is often associated with slower and less accurate recognition. We examined the combined effects of probabilistic phonotactics and lexical competition by generating words and nonwords that varied orthogonally on phonotactics a...

This paper examines the relationship of lexical richness to the quality of ESL learners’ oral narratives. A computational system is designed to automate the measurement of three dimensions of lexical richness, i.e., lexical density, sophistication, and variation, using twenty-five different metrics proposed in the language acquisition literature. This system is used to analyze large-scale data ...

Visually presented letter strings consistently yield three MEG response components: the M170, associated with letter-string processing (Tarkiainen, Helenius, Hansen, Cornelissen, & Salmelin, 1999); the M250, affected by phonotactic probability, (Pylkkänen, Stringfellow, & Marantz, 2002); and the M350, responsive to lexical frequency (Embick, Hackl, Schaeffer, Kelepir, & Marantz, 2001). Pylkkäne...