Browsing by Author "Vaid, Jyotsna"
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Vaid, Jyotsna; Park, Kwonsaeng (1997)Native Korean readers were studied in a visual half-field paradigm. Subjects were to make speeded judgments on Hangul (syllabic) and Hanzza (logographic) scripts based on phonetic or visual properties of the stimuli. A ...
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Chen, Hsin-Chin; Yamauchi, Takashi; Tanaoka, Katsuo; Vaid, Jyotsna (2007)In an examination of the time course of activation of phonological and semantic information in processing kanji script, two lexical decision experiments were conducted with native readers of Japanese. Kanji targets were ...
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Hull, Rachel Gayle (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The present investigation evaluates the effects of multiple language acquisition history on brain functional organization for language. To address a range of findings concerning the functional cerebral lateralization of ...
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Fitzpatrick, Robbie Reese (2011-10-21)The present study tested the hypothesis that humor directly integrated with targeted material positively impacts memory retention and recall. The rationale underlying the hypothesis is based on findings of neurological ...
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Lopez, Belem (2015-08-06)Language brokering refers to a widespread practice in refugee and/or immigrant communities whereby bilingual individuals act as linguistic and/or cultural intermediaries on behalf of family or community members. Previous ...
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Gonzalez, Patricia Garza (2014-09-19)This study investigates how Spanish heritage language speakers interpret two types of compound constructions in Spanish: head-initial [N+N] N (e.g., obra cumber ‘masterpiece,’ lit. ‘work summit’) and exocentric [V+N] N ...
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Vaid, Jyotsna; Padakannaya, Prakash (2004)This article is an overview of studies in a special issue of the journal, focused on reading and writing in semi-syllabic scripts.
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Rangel, Natalie (2013-08-28)The present study observes and compares the language attitudes towards standard English, standard Spanish, and code-switching in two U.S. and Mexico border cities (Laredo and Edinburg) by employing the matched-guise technique ...
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Bates, Elizabeth; O'Connell, B.; Vaid, Jyotsna; Sledge, Paul; Oakes, Lisa (Taylor and Francis Online, 1986)Although there is a demonstrated bias toward use of the right hand from birth, the meaning of this bias and its stability over time are unclear. Within a longitudinal study of language development at 13,20, and 28 months, ...
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Vaid, Jyotsna (Taylor and Francis, 2016-01)
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Hull, Rachel; Vaid, Jyotsna (Psychology Press - Taylor and Francis, 2006)A meta-analysis was conducted on studies that examined hemispheric functional asymmetry for language in brain-intact monolingual and bilingual adults. Data from 23 laterality studies that directly compared bilingual and ...
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Vaid, Jyotsna; Ramachandran, V.S. (Oxford University Press, 2001)This is an overview of theories of humor's adaptive significance.
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Park, Jeong Hyun (2018-10-09)The present dissertation explores the relationship between lexical stress and reading in English. The dissertation comprises three studies: one systematic review and two empirical studies. Study 1 aims to disentangle the ...
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Corina, David P.; Vaid, Jyotsna; Bellugi, Ursula (1992)In humans the two cerebral hemispheres of the brain are functionally specialized with the left hemisphere predominantly mediating language skills. The basis of this lateralization has been proposed to be differential ...
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Chen, Hsin-Chin (2009-05-15)A central issue in word recognition is how readers retrieve and select the right representation among others in the mental lexicon. Recently, it has been claimed that recognition of individual words is influenced by the ...
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Harper, Kelsey E (2019-12-05)This study provides the background of Peru’s ethnic and linguistic history, leading up to reasons for transnational migration and ultimately the linguistic and social positioning of the Peruvian diaspora with respect to ...
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Vaid, Jyotsna; Stiles-Davis, Joan (1989)It has been claimed that left-handed individuals are better than right-handers at writing in a mirror script (R. Tankle & K. Heilman, 1983, Brain and Language, 19, 115-123). We tested this claim by comparing the mirror ...
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Rao, Chaitra (2011-08-08)The present research examined whether morphology influences word recognition independently of form-level word properties. Prevailing views attribute cross-linguistic differences in morphological processing to variations ...
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Vaid, Jyotsna; Genesee, Fred (1980)Clinical and experimental studies which have examined the neuropsychological bases of language processing in bilinguals are reviewed and evaluated. Evidence from case studies of polyglot aphasics suggests that the ...
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Pritchett, Lena; Vaid, Jyotsna; Tosun, Sumeyra (Taylor and Francis, 2016-01)Are idioms stored in memory in ways that preserve their surface form or language or are they represented amodally? We examined this question using an incidental cued recall paradigm in which two word idiomatic expressions ...