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Language acquisition

Exploring the effect of lexical inferencing and dictionary consultation on undergraduate EFL students’ vocabulary acquisition

Alaa Alahmadi, Anouschka Foltz

A reinforcement-learning approach to efficient communication

Mikael Kågebäck, Emil Carlsson, Devdatt Dubhashi, Asad Sayeed

Evidence against a relation between bilingualism and creativity

Kendra V. Lange, Elise W. M. Hopman, Jeffrey C. Zemla, Joseph L. Austerweil

Unsupervised acquisition of idiomatic units of symbolic natural language: An n-gram frequency-based approach for the chunking of news articles and tweets

Dario Borrelli, Gabriela Gongora Svartzman, Carlo Lipizzi

Proactively location-based suppression elicited by statistical learning

Siyang Kong, Xinyu Li, Benchi Wang, Jan Theeuwes

Disentangling sequential from hierarchical learning in Artificial Grammar Learning: Evidence from a modified Simon Task

Maria Vender, Diego Gabriel Krivochen, [ ... ], Douglas Saddy

The Language of Innovation

Andrea Tacchella, Andrea Napoletano, Luciano Pietronero

“Wonderful! We’ve just missed the bus.” – Parental use of irony and children’s irony comprehension

Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak, Sandra Bosacki, [ ... ], Aleksandra Siemieniuk

The ability to learn new written words is modulated by language orthographic consistency

Chiara Valeria Marinelli, Pierluigi Zoccolotti, Cristina Romani

My English sounds better than yours: Second-language learners perceive their own accent as better than that of their peers

Holger Mitterer, Nikola Anna Eger, Eva Reinisch

Second language learning induces grey matter volume increase in people with multiple sclerosis

Rainer Ehling, Matthias Amprosi, [ ... ], Christoph Scherfler

Children’s reliance on the non-verbal cues of a robot versus a human

Josje Verhagen, Rianne van den Berghe, [ ... ], Paul Leseman

Measuring individual differences in cognitive abilities in the lab and on the web

Simón Ruiz, Xiaobin Chen, Patrick Rebuschat, Detmar Meurers

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