Words in the World hosts two types of accessible research information: Research Sketches and Plain Language Abstracts.
Research Sketches
Words in the World Research Sketches highlight research across the network in an accessible format, with links to the original publications for further reading. Each Research Sketch summarizes the research in plain language, presents an abstract, and provides a link to the full publication. All Research Sketches have been provided by authors who are members of the Words in the World Network. The authors have submitted their information to this site in order to enhance opportunities for research synergies and for knowledge mobilization. If you are a member of the Words in the World network and would like your research to be highlighted here, you can find the Research Sketch submission form here.
Explore currently available research sketches by language (English, Finnish, French, Italian), method (eye-tracking, lexical decision, priming), or population (adults, children), or view the entire list here.
Language
English
- The influence of gradient foreign accentedness and listener experience on word recognition (Porretta et al., 2016)
- Finding word boundaries in Indian English-accented speech (Hawthorne et al., 2017)
- Bilingualism: A Framework for Understanding the Mental Lexicon (Libben et al., 2017)
- The quantum metaphor and the organization of words in the mind (Libben, 2017)
Finnish
French
Italian
Method
Eye-tracking
- The influence of gradient foreign accentedness and listener experience on word recognition (Porretta et al., 2016)
- Finding word boundaries in Indian English-accented speech (Hawthorne et al., 2017)
- Understanding indirect reference in a visual context (Järvikivi et al., 2019)
Lexical Decision
Priming
- The influence of gradient foreign accentedness and listener experience on word recognition (Porretta et al., 2016)
- Aging and language: Maintenance of inflectional morphological representations in older adults (Royle et al., 2019)
Population
Adults
- The influence of gradient foreign accentedness and listener experience on word recognition (Porretta et al., 2016)
- Finding word boundaries in Indian English-accented speech (Hawthorne et al., 2017)
- Understanding indirect reference in a visual context (Järvikivi et al., 2019)
- Bilingualism: A Framework for Understanding the Mental Lexicon (Libben et al., 2017)
- The quantum metaphor and the organization of words in the mind (Libben, 2017)
- Social Media and Language Processing: How Facebook and Twitter Provide the Best Frequency Estimates for Studying Word Recognition (Herdağdelen & Marelli, 2017)
- Aging and language: Maintenance of inflectional morphological representations in older adults (Royle et al., 2019)
Children
- Acquiring Complex Focus-Marking: Finnish 4- to 5-Year-Olds Use Prosody and Word Order in Interaction (Arnhold et al., 2016)
Plain Language Abstracts
Part of the training initiative mandate set out by Words in the World is to provide knowledge translation and knowledge mobilization opportunities for our trainees. These plain-language abstracts have been written by student trainees at the Centre for Advanced Research in Experimental and Applied Linguistics (ARiEAL), at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, as part of this mandate. As part of this training project, they have taken articles written by WOW collaborators and created plain-language abstracts targeted at non-experts, including the general public and researchers from other fields.
You can explore by language (English, Finnish, French, German, Japanese), method (Corpus/Mega-Study, EEG/ERP, eye-tracking, fMRI, lexical decision, priming, production, ratings) or population (children, teens, adults, older adults). You can also view the complete list here.
Language
English
- The English disease in Finnish compound processing: Backward transfer effects in Finnish–English bilinguals (Bertram & Kuperman, 2020)
- Finding Word Boundaries in Indian English-Accented Speech (Hawthorne et al., 2017)
- Seeking the –ational in derivational morphology (Libben et al., 2016)
- The influence of gradient foreign accentedness and listener experience on word recognition (Porretta et al., 2016)
- Mass counts in World Englishes: A corpus linguistic study of noun countability in non-native varieties of English (Schmidtke & Kuperman, 2017)
Finnish
- The English disease in Finnish compound processing: Backward transfer effects in Finnish–English bilinguals (Bertram & Kuperman, 2020)
- Orthographic Activation in L2 Spoken Word Recognition Depends on Proficiency: Evidence from Eye-Tracking (Veivo et al., 2016)
- Spoken second language words activate native language orthographic information in late second language learners (Veivo et al., 2018)
- Acquiring Complex Focus-Marking: Finnish 4- to 5-Year-Olds Use Prosody and Word Order in Interaction (Arnhold et al., 2016)
- The Interplay of Implicit Causality, Structural Heuristics, and Anaphor Type in Ambiguous Pronoun Resolution (Järvikivi et al., 2017)
French
- Orthographic Activation in L2 Spoken Word Recognition Depends on Proficiency: Evidence from Eye-Tracking (Veivo et al., 2016)
- Spoken second language words activate native language orthographic information in late second language learners (Veivo et al., 2018)
German
- When morphological structure overrides meaning: evidence from German prefix and particle verbs (Smolka et al., 2019)
- Acquiring Complex Focus-Marking: Finnish 4- to 5-Year-Olds Use Prosody and Word Order in Interaction (Arnhold et al., 2016)
Japanese
Method
Corpus & Meta-Analysis
- Mass counts in World Englishes: A corpus linguistic study of noun countability in non-native varieties of English (Schmidtke & Kuperman, 2017)
- A Meta-Analysis of Task-Related Influences in Prospective Memory in traumatic brain injury (Wong Gonzalez & Buchanan, 2017)
EEG/ERP
- Does Anxiety Enhance or Hinder Attentional and Impulse Control in Youth With ADHD? An ERP Analysis (Klymkiw et al., 2017)
- Adverse childhood experience are associated with self-regulation and the magnitude of the error-related negativity difference (Lackner et al., 2018)
- Respond, Don’t React: The influence of mindfulness training on performance monitoring in older adults (Smart & Segalowitz, 2017)
- An EEG Investigation of the Attention-Related Impact of Mindfulness Training in Youth With ADHD: Outcomes and Methodological Considerations (Sibalis et al., 2017)
- Distinguishing shyness and sociability in adults: An event-related electrocortical-neuroendocrine study (Tang et al., 2016)
- Electrophysiological evidence of altered visual processing in adults who experienced visual deprivation during infancy (Segalowitz et al., 2017)
Eye-tracking
- The English disease in Finnish compound processing: Backward transfer effects in Finnish–English bilinguals (Bertram & Kuperman, 2020)
- Orthographic Activation in L2 Spoken Word Recognition Depends on Proficiency: Evidence from Eye-Tracking (Veivo et al., 2016)
- Spoken second language words activate native language orthographic information in late second language learners (Veivo et al., 2018)
- Evidence for a global oculomotor program in reading (Al-Zanoon et al., 2017)
- Social cues modulate cognitive status of discourse referents (Hawthorne et al., 2016 [1, 2])
- Finding Word Boundaries in Indian English-Accented Speech (Hawthorne et al., 2017)
- The Interplay of Implicit Causality, Structural Heuristics, and Anaphor Type in Ambiguous Pronoun Resolution (Järvikivi et al., 2017)
- Contributions of reader-and text-level characteristics to eye-movement patterns during passage reading (Kuperman et al., 2018)
- Eye-Movement Control in RAN and Reading (Kuperman et al., 2016)
- Visual trimorphemic compound recognition in a morphographic script (Miwa et al., 2017)
- Spelling Errors Impede Recognition of Correctly Spelled Word Forms (Rahmanian & Kuperman, 2017)
- Individual Variability in the Semantic Processing of English Compound Words (Schmidtke et al., 2018)
- Surviving blind decomposition: a distributional analysis of the time-course of complex word recognition (Schmidtke, Matsuki & Kuperman, 2017)
- Agentivity drives real-time pronoun resolution: Evidence from German er and der (Schumacher et al., 2017)
fMRI
Lexical Decision
- Semantic Neighborhood Effects for Abstract versus Concrete Words (Danguecan & Buchanan, 2016)
- Pun processing from a psycholinguistic perspective: Introducing the Model of Psycholinguistic Hemispheric Incongruity Laughter (M.PHIL) (McHugh & Buchanan, 2016)
- Spelling Errors Impede Recognition of Correctly Spelled Word Forms (Rahmanian & Kuperman, 2017)
- Conceptual relations compete during auditory and visual compound word recognition (Schmidtke et al., 2018)
- Surviving blind decomposition: a distributional analysis of the time-course of complex word recognition (Schmidtke, Matsuki & Kuperman, 2017)
- It’s all in the delivery: Context influences on word recognition (Snefjella & Kuperman, 2016)
Priming
- When morphological structure overrides meaning: evidence from German prefix and particle verbs (Smolka et al., 2019)
- ‘Can you wash off the hogwash?’– semantic transparency of first and second constituents in the processing of German compounds (Smolka & Libben, 2016)
Production
- Acquiring Complex Focus-Marking: Finnish 4- to 5-Year-Olds Use Prosody and Word Order in Interaction (Arnhold et al., 2016)
- Eye-Movement Control in RAN and Reading (Kuperman et al., 2016)
- Seeking the –ational in derivational morphology (Libben et al., 2016)
Ratings
- Novel metaphor comprehension: Semantic neighbourhood density interacts with concreteness (Al-Azary & Buchanan, 2017)
- Reliability of the sliding scale for collecting affective responses to words (Imbault et al., 2018)
- The influence of gradient foreign accentedness and listener experience on word recognition (Porretta et al., 2016)
- Conceptual relations compete during auditory and visual compound word recognition (Schmidtke et al., 2018)
- Competition between conceptual relations affects compound recognition: the role of entropy (Schmidtke et al., 2016)
- Sliding Into Happiness: A New Tool for Measuring Affective Responses to Words (Warriner et al., 2017)
- Characteristics of healthy older adults that influence self-rated cognitive function (Mulligan et al., 2018)
Population
Children
- Does Anxiety Enhance or Hinder Attentional and Impulse Control in Youth With ADHD? An ERP Analysis (Klymkiw et al., 2017)
- Exercise and Pediatric Brain Development: A Call to Action (Segalowitz, 2016)
- An EEG Investigation of the Attention-Related Impact of Mindfulness Training in Youth With ADHD: Outcomes and Methodological Considerations (Sibalis et al., 2017)
- Acquiring Complex Focus-Marking: Finnish 4- to 5-Year-Olds Use Prosody and Word Order in Interaction (Arnhold et al., 2016)
Teens
- Does Anxiety Enhance or Hinder Attentional and Impulse Control in Youth With ADHD? An ERP Analysis (Klymkiw et al., 2017)
- Exercise and Pediatric Brain Development: A Call to Action (Segalowitz, 2016)
- An EEG Investigation of the Attention-Related Impact of Mindfulness Training in Youth With ADHD: Outcomes and Methodological Considerations (Sibalis et al., 2017)
Adults
- Distinguishing shyness and sociability in adults: An event-related electrocortical-neuroendocrine study (Tang et al., 2016)
- Electrophysiological evidence of altered visual processing in adults who experienced visual deprivation during infancy (Segalowitz et al., 2017)