1st Edition

Second Language Speech Processing A Guide to Conducting Experimental Research

By Isabelle Darcy Copyright 2025
300 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book is the first hands-on roadmap for conducting rigorous experimental research on second language speech processing and spoken word recognition. Isabelle Darcy expertly defines key concepts and offers a detailed step-by-step guide to designing empirical psycholinguistic research in this complex, interdisciplinary area. The book covers the following: setting up an efficient workflow to... Read more

Acknowledgments

 

Part 1 Research Synthesis

Chapter 1 – Experimental approaches to second language phonological processing: A psycholinguistic perspective

Chapter 2 – Phonological knowledge in L1 and L2

Chapter 3 – Phonology in the L2 mental lexicon

 

Part 2 Practical Foundations

 

Chapter 4 – Good scientific workflow and Open Science practices

Chapter 5 – Experimental foundations

Chapter 6 – Key behavioral paradigms: the researcher’s toolbox

 

Part 3 Implementation

 

Chapter 7 – Experimental Design

Chapter 8 – Experimental Controls

Chapter 9 – Connecting the method to the research question

Chapter 10 – Collecting data

Chapter 11 – Preparing data for analysis

Chapter 12 – Preserving, protecting and archiving data

Chapter 13 – Conclusions and future directions

 

Index

Biography

Isabelle Darcy is Professor of Second Language Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, USA, and at Université Grenoble-Alpes, France.