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While inserting spaces between words facilitates reading in Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) learners, it remains unclear whether this benefit is short-lived or enduring throughout the learning process. Using a longitudinal eye-tracking design, we tracked L1-English CSL learners across four stages…
From an articulatory perspective, "uvularization" refers to the retraction of the tongue dorsum toward the uvular region, an articulatory gesture primarily caused by the contraction of the styloglossus and related muscles (Evans et al. 2016). Although uvularization has traditionally been viewed as a…
Voluntary language switching refers to self-initiated language switching by bilinguals. Compared with cued language switching, voluntary language switching under conditions of high lexical accessibility and high linguistic freedom elicits significantly reduced switching costs, even approaching nulli…
[Abstract] This study proposes a method for constructing a prosodic lexicon for Lhasa Tibetan based on a continuous speech database, applicable to low-resource and complex languages. The prosodic lexicon constructed from a small set of high-quality data (3.77 hours, 2,526 sentences) significantly im…
Through perceptual and acoustic experiments, we investigated the production and perception of adverb-oriented ambiguous sentences by native Chinese speakers and Chinese learners from non-tonal language backgrounds. Prosodic features play a significant role in the perception and production of Chinese…
Natural language is considered closely intertwined with human cognition, with linguistic structures posited to offer profound insights into the cognitive system. However, as a coding system, natural language encodes diverse objects into unified forms; its prominent formal features capture people’s a…
