Vita V Kogan

Biographic Data

ID3531867
NAMEVita V Kogan
GIVEN NAMESVita V
FAMILY NAMEKogan
SIGNATUREKOGAN V V
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Lisbon
ORCID0000-0002-8354-020X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • The aesthetics of language: What sound patterns reveal about language aesthetic appeal

    Open AccessVita V Kogan, Lukas Nemestothy et al.ARTICLELanguage and Cognition2026

    Phonaesthetics examines why some languages are perceived as more aesthetically appealing than others, independent of meaning. Here we test whether phonetic and phonological properties predict listeners’ evaluations of 24 European languages using studio-quality recordings of native speakers reading the same text. 204 participants rated each recording on four dimensions: beauty, eros, status and order on 0–100 scales and indicated whether the langu…

  • Collecting Big Data Through Citizen Science: Gamification and Game-based Approaches to Data Collection in Applied Linguistics

    Open AccessYoolim Kim, Vita V Kogan et al.ARTICLEApplied Linguistics2024

    Gamification of behavioral experiments has been applied successfully to research in a number of disciplines, including linguistics. We believe that these methods have been underutilized in applied linguistics, in particular second-language acquisition research. The incorporation of games and gaming elements (gamification) in behavioral experiments has been shown to mitigate many of the practical constraints characteristic of lab settings, such as…

  • The effect of task authenticity on second language writing product and process: The case of a morphologically complex language – Russian

    Open AccessVita V Kogan, Vita Kogan et al.ARTICLEForeign Language Annals2024References: 35

    There is compelling empirical evidence suggesting that more authentic learning tasks improve second language learners' motivation and learning (Long, 1996; Van Lier, 2014). However, most research on this topic has focused on Germanic and Romance L2 languages, primarily in the context of speaking skills. Little is known about the effect of task authenticity on L2 writing, especially in languages other than English. The present study investigated h…

  • Perception of European Portuguese Mid-Vowels by Ukrainian–Russian Bilinguals

    Open AccessVita V Kogan, Gabriela TavaresARTICLELanguages2024References: 51

    Mid-vowel contrasts often present perceptual challenges for speakers of languages that lack these distinctions. However, bilingual speakers, who have access to two phonological systems and exhibit greater metalinguistic awareness, might not necessarily encounter such difficulties. In this study, 27 Ukrainian–Russian bilinguals listened to an unfamiliar language, European Portuguese, and completed two tasks: an identification task where they assim…

  • Compactness of Native Vowel Categories in Monolingual, Bilingual, and Multilingual Speakers: Is Category Compactness Affected by the Number of Languages Spoken

    Open AccessVita V KoganARTICLELanguages2024Cited by: 1References: 53

    Phonetic category compactness pertains to the degree of variation or dispersion within a specific category. Previous research has shown that more compact native (L1) categories in production have been related to the discrimination of non-native sounds in perception and production. The understanding of the factors influencing L1 category compactness remains limited. Some proposals suggest that compactness may be influenced by individual difference…

  • Phonaesthetics and personality—Why we do not only prefer Romance languages

    Open AccessAnna Katharina Winkler, Anna Winkler et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Language Sciences2023

    Introduction Previous aesthetic research has set its main focus on visual and auditory, primarily music, stimuli with only a handful of studies exploring the aesthetic potential of linguistic stimuli. In the present study, we investigate for the first time the effects of personality traits on phonaesthetic language ratings. Methods Twenty-three under-researched, “rarer” (less learned and therefore less known as a foreign language or L2) and minor…

  • Large-scale replication study reveals a limit on probabilistic prediction in language comprehension

    Open AccessMante S Nieuwland, Stephen Politzer‐ahle et al.ARTICLEeLife2018

    Do people routinely pre-activate the meaning and even the phonological form of upcoming words? The most acclaimed evidence for phonological prediction comes from a 2005 Nature Neuroscience publication by DeLong, Urbach and Kutas, who observed a graded modulation of electrical brain potentials (N400) to nouns and preceding articles by the probability that people use a word to continue the sentence fragment (‘cloze’). In our direct replication stud…