Lexical stress plays a pivotal role in language processing by influencing how words are segmented, recognised, and accessed in the mental lexicon. Variations in stress patterns, realised through ...

Language matters. When we speak of “a word,” we should mean “a separate meaningful element of speech...used with others to form sentences.” (According to the Oxford Dictionary.) Spoken words are, of ...

In tonal languages such as Mandarin Chinese, a lexical tone carries semantic information and is preferentially processed in the left brain hemisphere of native speakers as revealed by the functional ...

Although the size of a child's vocabulary associates with language-processing skills, little is understood regarding how this relation emerges. This investigation asks whether and how the structure of ...