دورية أكاديمية
Lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on language processing
العنوان: | Lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on language processing |
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المؤلفون: | Daniel Kleinman, Adam M. Morgan, Rachel Ostrand, Eva Wittenberg |
المصدر: | PLoS ONE, Vol 17, Iss 6 (2022) |
بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022. |
سنة النشر: | 2022 |
المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Science |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medicine, Science |
الوصف: | A central question in understanding human language is how people store, access, and comprehend words. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic presented a natural experiment to investigate whether language comprehension can be changed in a lasting way by external experiences. We leveraged the sudden increase in the frequency of certain words (mask, isolation, lockdown) to investigate the effects of rapid contextual changes on word comprehension, measured over 10 months within the first year of the pandemic. Using the phonemic restoration paradigm, in which listeners are presented with ambiguous auditory input and report which word they hear, we conducted four online experiments with adult participants across the United States (combined N = 899). We find that the pandemic has reshaped language processing for the long term, changing how listeners process speech and what they expect from ambiguous input. These results show that abrupt changes in linguistic exposure can cause enduring changes to the language system. |
نوع الوثيقة: | article |
وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
Relation: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9200165/?tool=EBI; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203 |
URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/b146fd5532664794b24987fcfeb630ba |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.b146fd5532664794b24987fcfeb630ba |
قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
تدمد: | 19326203 |
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