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Inhibitory and facilitative effects of lexical neighbors in spoken word recognition: The role of language experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2023

Mona Roxana Botezatu Open the ORCID record for Mona Roxana Botezatu [Opens in a new window]  and
Dalia L. Garcia
Mona Roxana Botezatu*
Affiliation:
Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Dalia L. Garcia
Affiliation:
San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego, Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders, San Diego, CA, USA
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Corresponding author: Mona Roxana Botezatu; Email: botezatum@health.missouri.edu
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Abstract

The study evaluated whether the direction (inhibitory or facilitative) of the phonological neighborhood density effect in English spoken word recognition was modulated by the relative strength of competitor activation (neighborhood type) in two groups of English-dominant learners of Spanish who differed in language experience. Classroom learners and heritage learners of Spanish identified spoken English words from dense (e.g., BEAR) and sparse (e.g., BOAT) phonological neighborhoods presented in moderate noise. The phonological neighborhood was separately manipulated at word onset (cohort) and word offset (rhyme). Classroom learners were overall slower in recognizing spoken words from denser neighborhoods. Strongly active (onset) neighbors exerted inhibitory effects in both classroom and heritage learners. Critically, weakly active (offset) neighbors exerted inhibitory effects in classroom learners but facilitative effects in heritage learners. The results suggest that the activation of both within and cross-language neighbors should be considered in determining the direction of neighbor effects in bilingual lexical processing.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , May 2024 , pp. 550 - 563
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