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Frequency and Predictability Effects in First and Second Language of Different Script Bilinguals
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Mor, Billy; Prior, Anat – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
Reading efficiently in a second language (L2) is a crucial skill, but it is not universally achieved. Here we ask whether L2 reading efficiency is better captured as a language specific skill or whether it is mostly shared across L1 and L2, relying on general language abilities. To this end, we examined word frequency and predictability effects in…
Descriptors: Prediction, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension
A Developmental Study of the Role of Word Order in Comprehending Hebrew.
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Frankel, Daniel G.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1980
Monolingual Hebrew-speaking subjects aged 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 11 years, as well as college students, were asked to interpret utterances consisting of two nouns and a verb in order to determine whether Hebrew speakers can rely on a word order strategy to assign sentence relation. (MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Comprehension, Elementary Education
The Hebrew Vowel System: Raw and Normalized Acoustic Data.
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Most, Tova; Amir, Ofer; Tobin, Yishai – Language and Speech, 2000
Identified the acoustic features of the vowels produced by Hebrew speakers differing in age and sex. Ninety speakers were recorded. Vowels were presented in a nonword context that was placed in a meaningful Hebrew sentence. Results are discussed. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Age Differences, Auditory Stimuli, Foreign Countries