Listening Effort During Sentence Processing Is Increased for Non-native Listeners: A Pupillometry Study.

Front Neurosci · 2018 · PMC5859302 · PMID 29593489

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A marginally significant difference, with again lower performance for non-native participants, was also obtained for the backward digit span test, t (39.7) = −2.43, p = 0.06, and for the phonological short term memory test, t (48) = −2.55, p = 0.04.

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