Evaluating the sources and functions of gradiency in phoneme categorization: An individual differences approach.

EC Kapnoula, MB Winn, EJ Kong… - Journal of …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
During spoken language comprehension listeners transform continuous acoustic cues into
categories (eg,/b/and/p/). While long-standing research suggests that phonetic categories …

Categorical encoding of vowels in primary auditory cortex

DF Levy, SM Wilson - Cerebral Cortex, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Speech perception involves map** from a continuous and variable acoustic speech signal
to discrete, linguistically meaningful units. However, it is unclear where in the auditory …

Beyond decoding deficit: Inhibitory effect of positional syllable frequency in dyslexic Spanish children

JL Luque, M López-Zamora, CJ Álvarez, S Bordoy - Annals of dyslexia, 2013 - Springer
This study explores whether activation and inhibition word processes contribute to the
characteristic speed deficits found in transparent orthographies (Wimmer, Appl …

Beyond single syllables: The effect of first syllable frequency and orthographic similarity on eye movements during silent reading

S Hawelka, S Schuster, B Gagl… - Language and Cognitive …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The study assessed the eye movements of 60 adult German readers during silent reading of
target words, consisting of two and three syllables, embedded in sentences. The first …

[KNIHA][B] Individual differences in speech perception: sources, functions, and consequences of phoneme categorization gradiency

EE Kapnoula - 2016 - search.proquest.com
During spoken language comprehension, listeners transform continuous acoustic cues into
categories (eg/b/and/p/). While longstanding research suggests that phoneme categories …

[PDF][PDF] Severidad en las dificultades de aprendizaje de la lectura: diferencias en la percepción del habla y la conciencia fonológica

JL Luque, S Bordoy, A Giménez… - Escritos de Psicología …, 2011 - SciELO Espana
Un conjunto de tareas de conciencia fonológica, identificación y discriminación de fonemas
y juicios de orden temporal fue administrada a una muestra de niños disléxicos y sus …

Inhibitory effect of positional syllable frequency in Spanish 2nd and 4th grade readers

JL Luque, CJ Álvarez, S Bordoy, A Giménez… - Applied …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The inhibitory effect of positional syllable frequency is a well-known phenomenon in visual
word recognition: words with high-frequency syllables require extra time for deactivating the …

Speech perception deficits in Mandarin-speaking school-aged children with poor reading comprehension

HM Liu, FM Tsao - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Previous studies have shown that children learning alphabetic writing systems who have
language impairment or dyslexia exhibit speech perception deficits. However, whether such …

Descending auditory pathway and identification of phonetic contrast by native listeners

U Shastri, HM Mythri, UA Kumar - The Journal of the Acoustical Society …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The present study investigated the ability of native listeners to identify subtle phonetic
contrasts in nonsense words and its relationship with the contralateral inhibition of transient …

Sublexical modulation of simultaneous language activation in bilingual visual word recognition: The role of syllabic units

M Conrad, CJ Alvarez, O Afonso… - … : Language and cognition, 2015 - cambridge.org
We addressed the question of whether syllabic units of the presented language would
activate words containing these syllables in the nonpresented language. In two lexical …