Phonological neighborhood density is known to influence lexical access, speech production as well as perception processes. Lexical competition is thought to be the central concept from which the neighborhood effect emanates: highly competitive neighborhoods are characterized by large degrees of phonemic co-activation, which can delay speech recognition and facilitate speech production. The present study investigates phonetic learning in English as a foreign language in relation to phonological neighborhood density and onset density to see whether dense or sparse neighborhoods are more conducive to the incorporation of novel phonetic detail. In addition, the effect of voice-contrasted minimal pairs (bat-pat) is explored. Results indicate that sparser neighborhoods with weaker lexical competition provide the most optimal phonological environment for phonetic learning. Moreover, novel phonetic details are incorporated faster in neighborhoods without minimal pairs. Results indicate that lexical competition plays a role in the dissemination of phonetic updates in the lexicon of foreign language learners.
The contribution includes the data frame and the R script (Markdown file) belonging to the paper "Who Benefits from an Imperative? Assessment of Directives on a Benefit-Scale" submitted to the journal Pragmatics on September 2024.
The contribution includes the data frames and the R script (Markdown file) belonging to the paper "Morphological and Pragmatic Conditioning of Reflexivity in Possessive Pronouns: Effects of Number and Form of Address in Czech" submitted to the journal Language Variation and Change in September 2024.
Experimental materials, data and R scripts used in the paper "Garden-path sentences and the diversity of their
(mis)representations" (Ceháková - Chromý, 2023).
The item contains a list of 2,058 noun/verb conversion pairs along with related formations (word-formation paradigms) provided with linguistic features, including semantic categories that characterize semantic relations between the noun and the verb in each conversion pair. Semantic categories were assigned manually by two human annotators based on a set of sentences containing the noun and the verb from individual conversion pairs. In addition to the list of paradigms, the item contains a set of 739 files (a separate file for each conversion pair) annotated by the annotators in parallel and a set of 2,058 files containing the final annotation, which is included in the list of paradigms.