A5040535168- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Language Development and Disorders
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Mental Health via Writing
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Speech and Audio Processing
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Speech Recognition and Synthesis
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Electronic Health Records Systems
Western Sydney University
2015-2024
Australian Research Council
2023
Australian National University
2023
Chinese University of Hong Kong
2013-2015
Google (United States)
2015
Northwestern University
2013
Bilingualism was once thought to result in cognitive disadvantages, but research recent decades has demonstrated that experience with two (or more) languages confers a bilingual advantage executive functions and may delay the incidence of Alzheimer's disease. However, conflicting evidence emerged leading questions concerning robustness for both dementia incidence. Some investigators have failed find advantage; others suggested advantages be entirely spurious, while proponents case continued...
Numerous factors are thought to be advantageous for non-native language learning although they typically investigated in isolation, and the interaction between them is not understood. Firstly, bilinguals claimed acquire a third easier than monolinguals second. Secondly, closely related languages may learn. Thirdly, certain phonetic features could universally more difficult acquire. We tested these hypotheses used as explanations by having adults learn vocabularies that differentiated words...
Purpose We report a preliminary study that prospectively tests the potential cognitive enhancing effect of foreign language (FL) learning in older adults with no clear signs decline beyond what is age typical. Because engages large brain network overlaps aging, we hypothesized new later life would be beneficial. Method Older were randomly assigned to 3 training groups: FL, games, and music appreciation. All trained predominately by computer-based program for 6 months, their abilities tested...
Speech training paradigms aim to maximise learning outcomes by manipulating external factors such as talker variability. However, not all individuals may benefit from manipulations because subject-external interact with subject-internal ones (e.g., aptitude) determine speech perception and/or success. In a previous tone study, high-aptitude benefitted variability, whereas low-aptitude were impaired. Because increases in cognitive load have been shown hinder mixed-talker conditions, it has...
People living in rural and remote areas have poorer access to mental health services than those cities. They are also less likely seek help because of self-stigma entrenched stoic beliefs about seeking as a sign weakness. E-mental can span great distances reach need offer degree privacy anonymity exceeding that traditional face-to-face counseling open up possibilities for identifying at-risk individuals targeted intervention.This scoping review maps the research has explored text-based...
ABSTRACT The perceptual assimilation model (PAM; Best, C. T. [1995]. A direct realist view of cross‐language speech perception. In W. Strange (Ed.), Speech perception and linguistic experience: Issues in research (pp. 171–204). Baltimore, MD: York Press.) accounts for developmental patterns contrast discrimination by proposing that infants shift from untuned phonetic at 6 months to natively tuned 11–12 months, but the does not predict initial differences among contrasts. To address issue, we...
Although there is variability in nonnative grammar learning outcomes, the contributions of training paradigm design and memory subsystems are not well understood. To examine this, we presented learners with an artificial that formed words via simple complex morphophonological rules. Across three experiments, manipulated measured subjects' declarative, procedural, working subsystems. Experiment 1 demonstrated passive, exposure-based boosted both grammatical rules, relative to no training....
Abstract The growing interdisciplinary research field of psycholinguistics is in constant need new and up-to-date tools which will allow researchers to answer complex questions, but also expand on languages other than English, dominates the field. One type such are picture datasets provide naming norms for everyday objects. However, existing databases tend be small terms number items they include, have been normed a limited languages, despite recent boom multilingualism research. In this...
Learning to distinguish nonnative words that differ in a critical phonetic feature can be difficult. Speech training studies typically employ methods explicitly direct the learner's attention relevant learned. However, on vision have demonstrated perceptual learning may occur implicitly, by exposing learners stimulus features, even if they are irrelevant task, and it has recently been suggested this task-irrelevant framework also applies speech. In study, subjects took part seven-day regimen...
Construction and nursing are critical industries. Although both careers involve physically mentally demanding work, the risks to workers during COVID-19 pandemic not well understood. Nurses (both younger older) more likely experience ill effects of burnout stress than construction workers, due accelerated work demands increased pressure on nurses pandemic. In this study, we analyzed a large social media data set using advanced natural language processing techniques explore indicators mental...
This study systematically examined the role of intensified exposure to a second language on accommodating talker variability.
Monolingual listeners are constrained by native language experience when categorizing and discriminating unfamiliar non-native contrasts. Are early bilinguals in the same way their two languages, or do they possess an advantage? Greek-English either Greek English mode were compared to monolinguals on categorization discrimination of Ma'di stop-voicing distinctions that both languages. As predicted, categorized prevoiced plosive implosive stops coronal voiceless stop as voiced stops. The...
Bilingual experience has an impact on individual's linguistic processing and general cognitive abilities. The relation between these non-linguistic domains, in turn, is mediated by individual proficiency developmental changes that take place across the lifespan. This study evaluated this relationship assessing inhibition skills, verbal fluency monolingual bilingual school-aged children (Experiment 1), young adults 2), older 3). Results showed bilinguals outperformed monolinguals measure of...