Walter J B Van Heuven
Biographic Data
| ID | 1692570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walter J B Van Heuven |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walter J B |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Heuven |
| SIGNATURE | VAN HEUVEN W J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3183-4449 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
No evidence that same‐language subtitles improve children's reading fluency
High‐profile campaigns globally have argued that same‐language television subtitles may help children improve their reading. In this intervention study, we tested the causal hypothesis that exposure to subtitles improves children's reading fluency. We tested 127 British children in Years 2 and 3 before and after a 6‐week home‐based intervention, in which children were randomly assigned to an experimental group that watched television with English…
The Effect of Common Ground on Sarcasm Interpretation
Although sarcasm is commonly used worldwide, little is known about the interpretation of sarcasm in intercultural communications. We conducted an experiment investigating the effect of common ground in intercultural communication by manipulating communicators’ cultural background, with high common ground communicators from the same culture and low common ground communicators from different cultures. Specifically, 201 UK participants and 201 Chine…
Assessing bilingual language proficiency with a yes/no vocabulary test
Validated yes/no vocabulary tests that measure bilinguals’ language proficiency based on vocabulary knowledge have been widely used in psycholinguistic research. However, it is unclear what aspects of test takers’ vocabulary knowledge are employed in these tests, which makes the interpretation of their scores problematic. The present study investigated the contribution of bilinguals’ form-meaning knowledge to their item accuracy on a Malay yes/no…
The impact of spatial and verbal working memory load on semantic relatedness judgements
Studies using a relatedness judgement task have found differences between prime-target word pairs that vary in the degree of semantic relatedness. However, the influence of working memory load on semantic processing in this task and the role of the type of working memory task have not yet been investigated. The present study therefore investigated for the first time the effect of working memory load (low vs. high) and working memory type (verbal …
Inventing and Reinventing the Cog
Computational models can be considered as complete, quantified implementations of theories (Dijkstra & De Smedt, 1996). By specifying theoretical details, they allow explanations and predictions to go beyond the obvious and ordinal. The arrival of computational models in the cognitive domain of second language learning indicates that it is growing out of its infancy. This is because model implementation, clearly, can never be complete if the unde…
Subtlex-UK
We present word frequencies based on subtitles of British television programmes. We show that the SUBTLEX-UK word frequencies explain more of the variance in the lexical decision times of the British Lexicon Project than the word frequencies based on the British National Corpus and the SUBTLEX-US frequencies. In addition to the word form frequencies, we also present measures of contextual diversity part-of-speech specific word frequencies, word f…
The Role of Repeated Exposure to Multimodal Input in Incidental Acquisition of Foreign Language Vocabulary
Prior research has reported incidental vocabulary acquisition with complete beginners in a foreign language (FL), within 8 exposures to auditory and written FL word forms presented with a picture depicting their meaning. However, important questions remain about whether acquisition occurs with fewer exposures to FL words in a multimodal situation and whether there is a repeated exposure effect. Here we report a study where the number of exposures…
On Language and the Brain—Or on (Psycho)linguists and Neuroscientists? Commentary on Rodriguez‐Fornells et al
This paper comments on a paper by Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells in the same issue that discusses executive control in bilingual language processing. It argues that a good approach to studying the cognitive neuroscience of multilingualism is to start from available computational models that were developed using behavioral data
The architecture of the bilingual word recognition system
The paper opens with an evaluation of the BIA model of bilingual word recognition in the light of recent empirical evidence. After pointing out problems and omissions, a new model, called the BIA+, is proposed. Structurally, this new model extends the old one by adding phonological and semantic lexical representations to the available orthographic ones, and assigns a different role to the so-called language nodes. Furthermore, it makes a distinct…
Recognition of Cognates and Interlingual Homographs
Orthographic Neighborhood Effects in Bilingual Word Recognition
The Role of Repeated Exposure to Multimodal Input in Incidental Acquisition of Foreign Language Vocabulary
Prior research has reported incidental vocabulary acquisition with complete beginners in a foreign language (FL), within 8 exposures to auditory and written FL word forms presented with a picture depicting their meaning. However, important questions remain about whether acquisition occurs with fewer exposures to FL words in a multimodal situation and whether there is a repeated exposure effect. Here we report a study where the number of exposures…
Orthographic Neighborhood Effects in Bilingual Word Recognition
Recognition of Cognates and Interlingual Homographs
The architecture of the bilingual word recognition system
The paper opens with an evaluation of the BIA model of bilingual word recognition in the light of recent empirical evidence. After pointing out problems and omissions, a new model, called the BIA+, is proposed. Structurally, this new model extends the old one by adding phonological and semantic lexical representations to the available orthographic ones, and assigns a different role to the so-called language nodes. Furthermore, it makes a distinct…
On Language and the Brain—Or on (Psycho)linguists and Neuroscientists? Commentary on Rodriguez‐Fornells et al
This paper comments on a paper by Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells in the same issue that discusses executive control in bilingual language processing. It argues that a good approach to studying the cognitive neuroscience of multilingualism is to start from available computational models that were developed using behavioral data
Subtlex-UK
We present word frequencies based on subtitles of British television programmes. We show that the SUBTLEX-UK word frequencies explain more of the variance in the lexical decision times of the British Lexicon Project than the word frequencies based on the British National Corpus and the SUBTLEX-US frequencies. In addition to the word form frequencies, we also present measures of contextual diversity part-of-speech specific word frequencies, word f…
The Role of Repeated Exposure to Multimodal Input in Incidental Acquisition of Foreign Language Vocabulary
Prior research has reported incidental vocabulary acquisition with complete beginners in a foreign language (FL), within 8 exposures to auditory and written FL word forms presented with a picture depicting their meaning. However, important questions remain about whether acquisition occurs with fewer exposures to FL words in a multimodal situation and whether there is a repeated exposure effect. Here we report a study where the number of exposures…
Inventing and Reinventing the Cog
Computational models can be considered as complete, quantified implementations of theories (Dijkstra & De Smedt, 1996). By specifying theoretical details, they allow explanations and predictions to go beyond the obvious and ordinal. The arrival of computational models in the cognitive domain of second language learning indicates that it is growing out of its infancy. This is because model implementation, clearly, can never be complete if the unde…
The impact of spatial and verbal working memory load on semantic relatedness judgements
Studies using a relatedness judgement task have found differences between prime-target word pairs that vary in the degree of semantic relatedness. However, the influence of working memory load on semantic processing in this task and the role of the type of working memory task have not yet been investigated. The present study therefore investigated for the first time the effect of working memory load (low vs. high) and working memory type (verbal …
The Effect of Common Ground on Sarcasm Interpretation
Although sarcasm is commonly used worldwide, little is known about the interpretation of sarcasm in intercultural communications. We conducted an experiment investigating the effect of common ground in intercultural communication by manipulating communicators’ cultural background, with high common ground communicators from the same culture and low common ground communicators from different cultures. Specifically, 201 UK participants and 201 Chine…
Assessing bilingual language proficiency with a yes/no vocabulary test
Validated yes/no vocabulary tests that measure bilinguals’ language proficiency based on vocabulary knowledge have been widely used in psycholinguistic research. However, it is unclear what aspects of test takers’ vocabulary knowledge are employed in these tests, which makes the interpretation of their scores problematic. The present study investigated the contribution of bilinguals’ form-meaning knowledge to their item accuracy on a Malay yes/no…
No evidence that same‐language subtitles improve children's reading fluency
High‐profile campaigns globally have argued that same‐language television subtitles may help children improve their reading. In this intervention study, we tested the causal hypothesis that exposure to subtitles improves children's reading fluency. We tested 127 British children in Years 2 and 3 before and after a 6‐week home‐based intervention, in which children were randomly assigned to an experimental group that watched television with English…
Linguistics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Reading (process) (3 works)