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View article: Individual variation in contact effects – stability, convergence, and divergence
Individual variation in contact effects – stability, convergence, and divergence Open
In this study, we investigate the contact effects of stability, convergence, and divergence regarding the use of the same linguistic construction in the same contact situation. To do that, we collected experimental production and judgment …
View article: Investigating language transfer from a usage-based perspective
Investigating language transfer from a usage-based perspective Open
Aims and objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate language contact from a usage-based perspective. In particular, we test the explanatory power of a schematicity continuum, one of the central assumptions within usage-based appro…
View article: Similarity in Language Transfer – Investigating Transfer of Light Verb Constructions From Dutch to German
Similarity in Language Transfer – Investigating Transfer of Light Verb Constructions From Dutch to German Open
Bilingual speakers of typologically closely related languages tend to frequently experience language transfer, which suggests that similarity between languages is likely to play an important role in the transfer process. In this paper, we …
View article: Originality in online dating profile texts: How does perceived originality affect impression formation and what makes a text original?
Originality in online dating profile texts: How does perceived originality affect impression formation and what makes a text original? Open
This paper investigates origins and consequences of perceived profile text originality. The first goal was to examine whether the perceived originality of authentic online dating profile texts affects online daters’ perceptions of attracti…
View article: Individual corpus data predict variation in judgments: testing the usage-based nature of mental representations in a language transfer setting
Individual corpus data predict variation in judgments: testing the usage-based nature of mental representations in a language transfer setting Open
This study puts the usage-based assumption that our linguistic knowledge is based on usage to the test. To do so, we explore individual variation in speakers’ language use as established based on corpus data – both in terms of frequency of…
View article: Developing a morphological awareness intervention through inquiry‐based learning
Developing a morphological awareness intervention through inquiry‐based learning Open
Secondary school students are increasingly exposed to texts containing morphologically complex words. Morphological knowledge may help with understanding those words. Appropriate educational materials to teach morphological awareness (MA) …
View article: Comparing forward and reverse transfer from Dutch to German
Comparing forward and reverse transfer from Dutch to German Open
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: This study compares transfer from Dutch to German by native Dutch speakers who learned German as a second language (forward transfer: L1 to L2) and by native German speakers who are living in…
View article: What People Look at in Multimodal Online Dating Profiles: How Pictorial and Textual Cues Affect Impression Formation
What People Look at in Multimodal Online Dating Profiles: How Pictorial and Textual Cues Affect Impression Formation Open
This study investigates how online dating profiles, consisting of both pictures and texts, are visually processed, and how both components affect impression formation. The attractiveness of the profile picture was varied systematically, an…
View article: Relative Contribution of Auditory and Visual Information to Mandarin Chinese Tone Identification by Native and Tone-naïve Listeners
Relative Contribution of Auditory and Visual Information to Mandarin Chinese Tone Identification by Native and Tone-naïve Listeners Open
Speech perception is a multisensory process: what we hear can be affected by what we see. For instance, the McGurk effect occurs when auditory speech is presented in synchrony with discrepant visual information. A large number of studies h…
View article: Mandarin Tone Identification by Tone-Naïve Musicians and Non-musicians in Auditory-Visual and Auditory-Only Conditions
Mandarin Tone Identification by Tone-Naïve Musicians and Non-musicians in Auditory-Visual and Auditory-Only Conditions Open
A considerable number of studies have shown that musical ability has a positive effect on language processing. Extending this body of work, this study investigates the effects of musicality and modality on Mandarin tone identification in t…
View article: A good tennis player does not lose matches. The effects of valence congruency in processing stance-argument pairs
A good tennis player does not lose matches. The effects of valence congruency in processing stance-argument pairs Open
According to the principle of Argumentative Orientation (AO), speakers and writers adjust their frame choice to the opinion they want to convey and hearers and readers are sensitive to this profile choice. In three reaction time studies (N…
View article: Impression formation on online dating sites: Effects of language errors in profile texts on perceptions of profile owners’ attractiveness
Impression formation on online dating sites: Effects of language errors in profile texts on perceptions of profile owners’ attractiveness Open
This article presents two experimental studies investigating the impact of language errors in online dating profiles on impression formation. A first study examined whether language errors have a negative effect on perceptions of attractio…
View article: Picture this! The effects of positivity bias, saliency, and verbal politeness in valence framing research.
Picture this! The effects of positivity bias, saliency, and verbal politeness in valence framing research. Open
In earlier research on valence framing, factual and evaluative frames have been studied separately. Different factors have been argued to play a role for the two framing types: saliency for facts, and verbal politeness for evaluations. Our…
View article: Effects of Relationship Goal on Linguistic Behavior in Online Dating Profiles: A Multi-Method Approach
Effects of Relationship Goal on Linguistic Behavior in Online Dating Profiles: A Multi-Method Approach Open
This study uses two methods to examine whether online daters looking for a long-term relationship behave linguistically different in their profile texts compared to daters seeking casual relationships. To investigate these linguistic diffe…
View article: Metalinguistic judgments are psycholinguistic data
Metalinguistic judgments are psycholinguistic data Open
The goal of this study is two-fold. First, it will reveal to what extent differences in amount of experience with a particular register manifest themselves in different familiarity judgments when faced with word sequences that are characte…
View article: Variation is information: Analyses of variation across items, participants, time, and methods in metalinguistic judgment data
Variation is information: Analyses of variation across items, participants, time, and methods in metalinguistic judgment data Open
In a usage-based framework, variation is part and parcel of our linguistic experiences, and therefore also of our mental representations of language. In this article, we bring attention to variation as a source of information. Instead of d…
View article: Automatic identification of writers’ intentions: Comparing different methods for predicting relationship goals in online dating profile texts
Automatic identification of writers’ intentions: Comparing different methods for predicting relationship goals in online dating profile texts Open
Psychologically motivated, lexicon-based text analysis methods such as LIWC (Pennebaker et al., 2015) have been criticized by computational linguists for their lack of adaptability, but they have not often been systematically compared with…
View article: Effects of Modality and Speaking Style on Mandarin Tone Identification by Non-Native Listeners
Effects of Modality and Speaking Style on Mandarin Tone Identification by Non-Native Listeners Open
Although the way tones are acquired by second or foreign language learners has attracted some scholarly attention, detailed knowledge of the factors that promote efficient learning is lacking. In this article, we look at the effect of visu…
View article: Predictive language processing revealing usage-based variation
Predictive language processing revealing usage-based variation Open
While theories on predictive processing posit that predictions are based on one’s prior experiences, experimental work has effectively ignored the fact that people differ from each other in their linguistic experiences and, consequently, i…
View article: Local and global pitch perception in L1 and L2 readers of Dutch
Local and global pitch perception in L1 and L2 readers of Dutch Open
Prior research showed a relationship between reading skills and pitch perception, however the exact nature remained unclear. By means of reading tests and a pitch perception test, we examined the relation between reading abilities and loca…
View article: Stability of familiarity judgments: Individual variation and the invariant bigger picture
Stability of familiarity judgments: Individual variation and the invariant bigger picture Open
Judgments are often used in linguistic research. Not much is known, however, about the variation of such judgments within and between participants. From a usage-based perspective, variation might be expected: with judgments based in repres…