1st Edition
Second Language Speech Processing A Guide to Conducting Experimental Research
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: setting up an efficient workflow to enhance reproducibility of findings; determining a methodology; selecting experimental controls and designing stimuli; collecting data using an array of methodological tools; addressing common challenges; preparing and analyzing data; preregistering the study; and sharing data transparently in accordance with Open Science practices. Darcy provides everything needed to design and carry out robust behavioral studies on L2 speech processing, in a laboratory or online.
This book will be an invaluable practical resource for researchers and advanced students in second language speech learning, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, and language teaching, as well as those interested in applied linguistics, pronunciation, and related subjects.
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.
