Towards a just and equitable applied psycholinguistics

Kutlu, Ethan; Hayes‐Harb, Rachel

doi:10.1017/s0142716423000280

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“…Calls have also been made for more just and equitable research, particularly in psycholinguistics where a focus on "normality" has led to entrenched ideals around monolingualism and native-speakerism, with marginalising effects on large language communities (Kutlu and Hayes-Harb 2023). Additionally, while not at all recent, it is acknowledged that under-researched learners are likely to be underserved, and potentially harmed, by the inappropriate application of overgeneralised findings (Ortega 2005;Bigelow and Tarone 2004).…”

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Cross-Scriptal Orthographic Influence on Second Language Phonology

Shepperd

2024

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Learners of additional languages, particularly in adulthood and instructed settings, are typically exposed to large quantities of written input from the earliest stages of learning, with varied and far-reaching effects on L2 phonology. Most research investigating this topic focuses on learning across languages that share the same orthographic script, often involving the Latin alphabet and English. Without exploring phonological learning over a greater diversity of spoken and written language combinations, our understanding of orthographic effects on L2 phonology remains narrow and unrepresentative of the many individuals acquiring languages across writing systems, globally. This paper draws together preliminary research relating to the influence of written input, in a distinct script from known languages, on L2 phonology. Studies are grouped into those with naïve participants, where the written forms are entirely unfamiliar to the participant, and those with experienced learners, who have varying levels of proficiency and familiarity with the target orthography. While there is great scope and need for further investigation, initial evidence suggests that even entirely unfamiliar written input impacts phonological learning and is certainly influential with growing proficiency in the spoken and written language. The article concludes with theoretical and methodological considerations for future research in this emerging field.

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Cross-Scriptal Orthographic Influence on Second Language Phonology

Shepperd

2024

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“…Studies indicate that the discrepancies usually originate from specific properties of the studied dialects and the ecosystem in which the dialects are acquired. Different linguistic properties influence cognitive processing differentially (see Blasi et al 2022;Kutlu and Hayes-Harb 2023), but ironically, most models of language processing are drawn from a handful of extremely privileged languages of the Western world, primarily from English (Blasi et al 2022;Kidd and Garcia 2022;Kutlu and Hayes-Harb 2023;McCrink and Shaki 2016;Vaid 2022). Dialect representation also has a strong link with the contexts in which the dialects are acquired or used.…”

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Dialect Recognition via Lexical Processing: Is It a Viable Litmus Test?

Feleke

2024

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For decades, linguists have been working to formulate an objective means of distinguishing dialects from languages, but dialect recognition has largely remained a subjective enterprise. Only recently have some studies proposed a processing-based psycholinguistic approach toward dialect recognition. These studies argued that dialect words are stored as a co-dependent representation, not as an independent representation of the words of bilingual speakers. Based on these studies, we investigated the lexical selection and processing mechanisms of bilingual and bidialectal speakers of two understudied languages, Oromo and Amharic, using the picture–word interference paradigm. We found independent lexical representations for both the bilingual and the bidialectal groups, which implies the involvement of the same cognitive mechanisms in both language and dialect processing. Thus, we argue that bidialectal speakers have flexible lexical representation and selection mechanisms that are dependent on the speakers’ previous language experience. Here, we propose a dynamic lexical selection model that accommodates diverse dialect ecologies.

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Diversity in Research on the Psychology of Language: A Large-Scale Examination of Sampling Bias

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2024

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Towards a just and equitable applied psycholinguistics

Cited by 4 publications

References 25 publications

Cross-Scriptal Orthographic Influence on Second Language Phonology

Cross-Scriptal Orthographic Influence on Second Language Phonology

Dialect Recognition via Lexical Processing: Is It a Viable Litmus Test?

Diversity in Research on the Psychology of Language: A Large-Scale Examination of Sampling Bias

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