Michael S Vitevitch
Biographic Data
| ID | 5886473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael S Vitevitch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael S |
| FAMILY NAME | Vitevitch |
| SIGNATURE | VITEVITCH M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1209-0838 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Network analysis of the foreign language classroom anxiety scale
The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) is among the most widely used instruments for assessing anxiety in the foreign language classroom, yet prior factor-analytic studies have produced inconsistent solutions ranging from two to seven components across different samples and target languages. The present study applies network psychometrics to examine the structure of the FLCAS. This approach has been used productively to examine anxi…
Word-likeness ratings of English-like non-words by Arabic and Chinese learners of English: Implications for assessing proficiency
The present study investigated English learners' subjective word-likeness ratings of English-like non-words. For both native Arabic and Mandarin speakers learning English, the subjective word-likeness ratings correlated with objective phonotactic probability measures of those non-words. Although there were no differences between the subjective word-likeness ratings of Beginner and Advanced English learners, the word-likeness ratings of Beginner a…
A cognitive network analysis of semantic associates in monolingual English speakers and learners of Kaqchikel
Network science was used to create and examine semantic networks of cue and response words from a word association task in learners of Kaqchikel (an endangered language indigenous to Guatemala) and monolingual English speakers. English speakers provided a wide range of responses indicative of creative language use, whereas the Kaqchikel learners provided straightforward and utilitarian responses. The observed differences in network structure in t…
Cognitive modelling of concepts in the mental lexicon with multilayer networks: Insights, advancements, and future challenges
The mental lexicon is a complex cognitive system representing information about the words/concepts that one knows. Over decades psychological experiments have shown that conceptual associations across multiple, interactive cognitive levels can greatly influence word acquisition, storage, and processing. How can semantic, phonological, syntactic, and other types of conceptual associations be mapped within a coherent mathematical framework to study…
Using Network Science and Psycholinguistic Megastudies to Examine the Dimensions of Phonological Similarity
Network science was used to examine different dimensions of phonological similarity in English. Data from a phonological associate task and an identification of words in noise task were used to create a phonological association network and a misperception network. These networks were compared to a network formed by a computational metric widely used to assess phonological similarity (i.e., one-phoneme metric). The phonological association network…
Using network analyses to examine the extent to which and in what ways psychology is multidisciplinary
The emerging field known as the “science of science” uses a variety of quantitative techniques to (among other things) understand how a specific field changes over time. The tools of network science were used to quantify the extent to which Psychology is multidisciplinary, and how the extent to which it is multidisciplinary changed over time. Citation networks were created from all of the articles published in journals identified by the Web of Sc…
Phonological Neighborhood Effects in Spoken Word Perception and Production
Research on spoken word perception and production has identified two hallmarks of spoken word processing: multiple activation of representations of the sound patterns of words in memory and subsequent competition among these patterns. Evidence for this activation-competition process has come, in part, from experimental studies examining the effects of phonological neighborhoods, which are collections of similar-sounding words that are activated i…
Examining the Acquisition of Phonological Word Forms with Computational Experiments
It has been hypothesized that known words in the lexicon strengthen newly formed representations of novel words, resulting in words with dense neighborhoods being learned more quickly than words with sparse neighborhoods. Tests of this hypothesis in a connectionist network showed that words with dense neighborhoods were learned better than words with sparse neighborhoods when the network was exposed to the words all at once (Experiment 1), or gra…
Short research note: The Beginning Spanish Lexicon: A web-based interface to calculate phonological similarity among Spanish words in adults learning Spanish as a foreign language
A number of resources provide psycholinguistic researchers with information about the words that the typical child or adult knows in a variety of languages. What is currently not available is a resource that provides information about the words that a typical adult learning a foreign language knows. We created such a resource for Spanish: The Beginning Spanish Lexicon. The present report describes the words contained in this web-accessible resour…
Word Length and Lexical Competition: Longer is the Same as Shorter
Neighborhood density refers to the number of words that sound similar to a given word. Previous studies have found that neighborhood density influences the recognition of spoken words (Luce & Pisoni, 1998); however, this work has focused almost exclusively on monosyllabic words in English. To investigate the effects of neighborhood density on longer words, bisyllabic words varying in neighborhood density were presented auditorily to participants …
Special Issue: Language Processing: Development and Change
A Web-based interface to calculate phonotactic probability for words and nonwords in English
Naturalistic and Experimental Analyses of Word Frequency and Neighborhood Density Effects in Slips of the Ear
A comparison of the lexical characteristics of 88 auditory misperceptions (i.e., slips of the ear) showed no di fference in word-frequency, neighborhood density, and neighborhood frequency between the actual and the perceived utterances. Another comparison of slip of the ear tokens (i.e., actual and perceived utterances) and words in general (i.e., randomly selected from the lexicon) showed that slip of the ear tokens had denser neighborhoods and…
Probabilistic Phonotactics and Neighborhood Activation in Spoken Word Recognition
When Words Compete: Levels of Processing in Perception of Spoken Words
Current theories of spoken-word recognition posit two levels of representation and process: lexical and sublexical. By manipulating probabilistic phonotactics and similarity-neighborhood density, we attempted to determine if these two levels of representation have dissociable effects on processing. Whereas probabilistic phonotactics have been associated with facilitatory effects on recognition, increases in similarity-neighborhood density typical…
The Neighborhood Characteristics of Malapropisms
This study examined the phonological neighborhood characteristics (frequency, density, and neighborhood frequency) of 138 malapropisms. Malapropisms are whole word substitutions that are phonologically, but not semantically, related. A statistical analysis of a speech error corpus suggests that neighborhood density and word frequency differentially affected the number of malapropisms. Specifically, a greater number of malapropisms were found amon…
Phonotactics and Syllable Stress: Implications for the Processing of Spoken Nonsense Words
Two experiments using bisyllabic CVCCVC nonsense words that varied in phonotactic probability and stress placement were conducted to examine the influences of phonotactic and metrical information on spoken word recognition. Experiment 1 examined participants' intuitions about the phonological “goodness” of nonsense words. Experiment 2 examined processing times for the same stimuli in a speeded auditory repetition task. The results of both studies…
Phonotactics and Syllable Stress: Implications for the Processing of Spoken Nonsense Words
Two experiments using bisyllabic CVCCVC nonsense words that varied in phonotactic probability and stress placement were conducted to examine the influences of phonotactic and metrical information on spoken word recognition. Experiment 1 examined participants' intuitions about the phonological “goodness” of nonsense words. Experiment 2 examined processing times for the same stimuli in a speeded auditory repetition task. The results of both studies…
The Neighborhood Characteristics of Malapropisms
This study examined the phonological neighborhood characteristics (frequency, density, and neighborhood frequency) of 138 malapropisms. Malapropisms are whole word substitutions that are phonologically, but not semantically, related. A statistical analysis of a speech error corpus suggests that neighborhood density and word frequency differentially affected the number of malapropisms. Specifically, a greater number of malapropisms were found amon…
Phonological Neighborhood Effects in Spoken Word Perception and Production
Research on spoken word perception and production has identified two hallmarks of spoken word processing: multiple activation of representations of the sound patterns of words in memory and subsequent competition among these patterns. Evidence for this activation-competition process has come, in part, from experimental studies examining the effects of phonological neighborhoods, which are collections of similar-sounding words that are activated i…
Naturalistic and Experimental Analyses of Word Frequency and Neighborhood Density Effects in Slips of the Ear
A comparison of the lexical characteristics of 88 auditory misperceptions (i.e., slips of the ear) showed no di fference in word-frequency, neighborhood density, and neighborhood frequency between the actual and the perceived utterances. Another comparison of slip of the ear tokens (i.e., actual and perceived utterances) and words in general (i.e., randomly selected from the lexicon) showed that slip of the ear tokens had denser neighborhoods and…
Examining the Acquisition of Phonological Word Forms with Computational Experiments
It has been hypothesized that known words in the lexicon strengthen newly formed representations of novel words, resulting in words with dense neighborhoods being learned more quickly than words with sparse neighborhoods. Tests of this hypothesis in a connectionist network showed that words with dense neighborhoods were learned better than words with sparse neighborhoods when the network was exposed to the words all at once (Experiment 1), or gra…
Using Network Science and Psycholinguistic Megastudies to Examine the Dimensions of Phonological Similarity
Network science was used to examine different dimensions of phonological similarity in English. Data from a phonological associate task and an identification of words in noise task were used to create a phonological association network and a misperception network. These networks were compared to a network formed by a computational metric widely used to assess phonological similarity (i.e., one-phoneme metric). The phonological association network…
Word Length and Lexical Competition: Longer is the Same as Shorter
Neighborhood density refers to the number of words that sound similar to a given word. Previous studies have found that neighborhood density influences the recognition of spoken words (Luce & Pisoni, 1998); however, this work has focused almost exclusively on monosyllabic words in English. To investigate the effects of neighborhood density on longer words, bisyllabic words varying in neighborhood density were presented auditorily to participants …
The Neighborhood Characteristics of Malapropisms
This study examined the phonological neighborhood characteristics (frequency, density, and neighborhood frequency) of 138 malapropisms. Malapropisms are whole word substitutions that are phonologically, but not semantically, related. A statistical analysis of a speech error corpus suggests that neighborhood density and word frequency differentially affected the number of malapropisms. Specifically, a greater number of malapropisms were found amon…
Phonotactics and Syllable Stress: Implications for the Processing of Spoken Nonsense Words
Two experiments using bisyllabic CVCCVC nonsense words that varied in phonotactic probability and stress placement were conducted to examine the influences of phonotactic and metrical information on spoken word recognition. Experiment 1 examined participants' intuitions about the phonological “goodness” of nonsense words. Experiment 2 examined processing times for the same stimuli in a speeded auditory repetition task. The results of both studies…
When Words Compete: Levels of Processing in Perception of Spoken Words
Current theories of spoken-word recognition posit two levels of representation and process: lexical and sublexical. By manipulating probabilistic phonotactics and similarity-neighborhood density, we attempted to determine if these two levels of representation have dissociable effects on processing. Whereas probabilistic phonotactics have been associated with facilitatory effects on recognition, increases in similarity-neighborhood density typical…
Probabilistic Phonotactics and Neighborhood Activation in Spoken Word Recognition
Naturalistic and Experimental Analyses of Word Frequency and Neighborhood Density Effects in Slips of the Ear
A comparison of the lexical characteristics of 88 auditory misperceptions (i.e., slips of the ear) showed no di fference in word-frequency, neighborhood density, and neighborhood frequency between the actual and the perceived utterances. Another comparison of slip of the ear tokens (i.e., actual and perceived utterances) and words in general (i.e., randomly selected from the lexicon) showed that slip of the ear tokens had denser neighborhoods and…
A Web-based interface to calculate phonotactic probability for words and nonwords in English
Special Issue: Language Processing: Development and Change
Word Length and Lexical Competition: Longer is the Same as Shorter
Neighborhood density refers to the number of words that sound similar to a given word. Previous studies have found that neighborhood density influences the recognition of spoken words (Luce & Pisoni, 1998); however, this work has focused almost exclusively on monosyllabic words in English. To investigate the effects of neighborhood density on longer words, bisyllabic words varying in neighborhood density were presented auditorily to participants …
Short research note: The Beginning Spanish Lexicon: A web-based interface to calculate phonological similarity among Spanish words in adults learning Spanish as a foreign language
A number of resources provide psycholinguistic researchers with information about the words that the typical child or adult knows in a variety of languages. What is currently not available is a resource that provides information about the words that a typical adult learning a foreign language knows. We created such a resource for Spanish: The Beginning Spanish Lexicon. The present report describes the words contained in this web-accessible resour…
Examining the Acquisition of Phonological Word Forms with Computational Experiments
It has been hypothesized that known words in the lexicon strengthen newly formed representations of novel words, resulting in words with dense neighborhoods being learned more quickly than words with sparse neighborhoods. Tests of this hypothesis in a connectionist network showed that words with dense neighborhoods were learned better than words with sparse neighborhoods when the network was exposed to the words all at once (Experiment 1), or gra…
Phonological Neighborhood Effects in Spoken Word Perception and Production
Research on spoken word perception and production has identified two hallmarks of spoken word processing: multiple activation of representations of the sound patterns of words in memory and subsequent competition among these patterns. Evidence for this activation-competition process has come, in part, from experimental studies examining the effects of phonological neighborhoods, which are collections of similar-sounding words that are activated i…
Using network analyses to examine the extent to which and in what ways psychology is multidisciplinary
The emerging field known as the “science of science” uses a variety of quantitative techniques to (among other things) understand how a specific field changes over time. The tools of network science were used to quantify the extent to which Psychology is multidisciplinary, and how the extent to which it is multidisciplinary changed over time. Citation networks were created from all of the articles published in journals identified by the Web of Sc…
Using Network Science and Psycholinguistic Megastudies to Examine the Dimensions of Phonological Similarity
Network science was used to examine different dimensions of phonological similarity in English. Data from a phonological associate task and an identification of words in noise task were used to create a phonological association network and a misperception network. These networks were compared to a network formed by a computational metric widely used to assess phonological similarity (i.e., one-phoneme metric). The phonological association network…
A cognitive network analysis of semantic associates in monolingual English speakers and learners of Kaqchikel
Network science was used to create and examine semantic networks of cue and response words from a word association task in learners of Kaqchikel (an endangered language indigenous to Guatemala) and monolingual English speakers. English speakers provided a wide range of responses indicative of creative language use, whereas the Kaqchikel learners provided straightforward and utilitarian responses. The observed differences in network structure in t…
Cognitive modelling of concepts in the mental lexicon with multilayer networks: Insights, advancements, and future challenges
The mental lexicon is a complex cognitive system representing information about the words/concepts that one knows. Over decades psychological experiments have shown that conceptual associations across multiple, interactive cognitive levels can greatly influence word acquisition, storage, and processing. How can semantic, phonological, syntactic, and other types of conceptual associations be mapped within a coherent mathematical framework to study…
Word-likeness ratings of English-like non-words by Arabic and Chinese learners of English: Implications for assessing proficiency
The present study investigated English learners' subjective word-likeness ratings of English-like non-words. For both native Arabic and Mandarin speakers learning English, the subjective word-likeness ratings correlated with objective phonotactic probability measures of those non-words. Although there were no differences between the subjective word-likeness ratings of Beginner and Advanced English learners, the word-likeness ratings of Beginner a…
Network analysis of the foreign language classroom anxiety scale
The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) is among the most widely used instruments for assessing anxiety in the foreign language classroom, yet prior factor-analytic studies have produced inconsistent solutions ranging from two to seven components across different samples and target languages. The present study applies network psychometrics to examine the structure of the FLCAS. This approach has been used productively to examine anxi…
Psychology (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Natural language processing (10 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (10 works) · Phonology (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (6 works) · Speech recognition (6 works)