Sublexical modulation of simultaneous language activation in bilingual visual word recognitionthe role of syllabic units

  1. Conrad, Markus 1
  2. Álvarez González, Carlos Javier 1
  3. Afonso, Olivia 1
  4. Jacobs, Arthur M. 2
  1. 1 Universidad de La Laguna
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    Universidad de La Laguna

    San Cristobal de La Laguna, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01r9z8p25

    Geografischer Standort der Organisation Universidad de La Laguna
  2. 2 Freie Universität, Berlin
Zeitschrift:
Bilingualism: Language and cognition

ISSN: 1366-7289

Datum der Publikation: 2015

Ausgabe: 18

Nummer: 4

Seiten: 696-712

Art: Artikel

DOI: 10.1017/S1366728914000443 SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-84941125615 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Andere Publikationen in: Bilingualism: Language and cognition

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Zusammenfassung

We addressed the question of whether syllabic units of the presented language would activate words containing these syllables in the nonpresented language. In two lexical decision experiments using Spanish and German words presented to two groups of late Spanish–German and German–Spanish bilinguals and to two monolingual control groups, target words’ syllable-frequency in the nonpresented language was manipulated. Inhibitory effects of syllable-frequency in the nonpresented language were found only when Spanish–German bilinguals read German L2 words– suggesting that L2 sublexical syllabic units activated L1 syllabic neighbors’ representations that would interfere with L2 target processing. On the contrary, no inhibitory effects but rather a facilitation tendency due to syllable-frequency from the nonpresented German language was obtained for both groups of bilinguals reading Spanish words. This dissociation concerning the spread of activation from sublexical units to lexical representations from bilinguals’ two languages is discussed in terms of structural differences between the two languages.

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