This study builds on prior research on second language (L2) Spanish psych verbs, which has centered on morphosyntactic properties, by examining their syntactic distribution, which relies on lexical semantic knowledge. The fact that certain forms are licensed for some verbs, but not others, is the result of an underlying lexical semantic difference across verb classes, represented here as a difference in formal feature strength.

Making use of large size pictures, the exhibition Let Me Be Myself - The Life Story of Anne Frank shows the story of Anne Frank from her birth in 1929 up to her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

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Upon hearing someone’s speech, a listener can access information such as the speaker’s age, gender identity, socioeconomic status, and their linguistic background. However, an open question is whether living in different locales modulates how listeners use these factors to assess speakers’ speech. Here, an audio-visual test was used to measure whether listeners’ accentedness judgments and intelligibility (i.e., speech perception) can be modulated depending on racial information in faces that they see.

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Conference Presentation at Jornadas Lingüísticas, November 11th-13th, 2021.

Study explores how written vs. auditory input affects Spanish speakers’ English /ɝ/ (“schwar”) pronunciation, revealing orthographic interference impacts L2 speech accuracy.

Race impacts speech perception and accentedness judgments; South Asian faces lowered intelligibility ratings. Social network representation influenced listener biases toward English varieties.

L2 learners show within- and between-language lexical competition; proficiency links to faster target activation and resolution in spoken word recognition.