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Semantic priming effects can be modulated by crosslinguistic interactions during second-language auditory word recognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2020

Sara Guediche ,
Martijn Baart  and
Arthur G. Samuel
Sara Guediche*
Affiliation:
BCBL. Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Martijn Baart
Affiliation:
BCBL. Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language Dept of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Arthur G. Samuel
Affiliation:
BCBL. Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language Stony Brook University, NY Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science
*
Address for correspondence: Sara Guediche, E-mail: s.guediche@bcbl.eu
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Abstract

The current study investigates how second language auditory word recognition, in early and highly proficient Spanish–Basque (L1-L2) bilinguals, is influenced by crosslinguistic phonological-lexical interactions and semantic priming. Phonological overlap between a word and its translation equivalent (phonological cognate status), and semantic relatedness of a preceding prime were manipulated. Experiment 1 examined word recognition performance in noisy listening conditions that introduce a high degree of uncertainty, whereas Experiment 2 employed clear listening conditions, with low uncertainty. Under noisy listening conditions, semantic priming effects interacted with phonological cognate status: for word recognition accuracy, a related prime overcame inhibitory effects of phonological overlap between target words and their translations. These findings are consistent with models of bilingual word recognition that incorporate crosslinguistic phonological-lexical-semantic interactions. Moreover, they suggest an interplay between L2-L1 interactions and the integration of information across acoustic and semantic levels of processing in flexibly mapping the speech signal onto the spoken words, under adverse listening conditions.

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speech perceptionspeech in noiselexical-semanticscognate effectslexical decision

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 23 , Issue 5 , November 2020 , pp. 1082 - 1092
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