TY - GEN
T1 - Spoken Words Activate Cross-Linguistic Orthographic Competitors in the Absence of Phonological Overlap
AU - Bartolotti, James
AU - Daniel, Natalia L.
AU - Marian, Viorica
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded in part by grant NICHD RO1 HD059858-01A to the third author. The authors would like to acknowledge Anthony Shook, Scott Schroeder, Sarah Cha-bal, Jen Krizman, and Tuan Lam for comments on an earlier draft of this paper.
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PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Related languages, like English and Spanish, often have similar orthographies but use the same letters to represent different sounds. Learning a second language frequently involves learning additional letter-sound mappings that mismatch those in the native language. In the current study, we investigated whether L2 spoken words activate L2 orthography despite conflict with L1 orthography-to-phonology mappings. Participants first learned an artificial language with letter-sound mappings that mismatched English (e.g., the letter 'G' represented the sound/h/, and the word/gufO/was spelled 'hane'). Next, fixations of L1 crosslinguistic orthographic competitors (e.g., 'cane') in response to auditory L2 input (e.g.,/gufO/) were assessed using the visual world paradigm. Results showed that participants fixated L1 competitors that overlapped with L2 targets orthographically (but not phonologically) more than unrelated fillers. We conclude that second language learners can rapidly acquire novel letter-sound mappings, and words based on these mappings are integrated into the existing lexicon where they can activate orthographic competitors in the native language.
AB - Related languages, like English and Spanish, often have similar orthographies but use the same letters to represent different sounds. Learning a second language frequently involves learning additional letter-sound mappings that mismatch those in the native language. In the current study, we investigated whether L2 spoken words activate L2 orthography despite conflict with L1 orthography-to-phonology mappings. Participants first learned an artificial language with letter-sound mappings that mismatched English (e.g., the letter 'G' represented the sound/h/, and the word/gufO/was spelled 'hane'). Next, fixations of L1 crosslinguistic orthographic competitors (e.g., 'cane') in response to auditory L2 input (e.g.,/gufO/) were assessed using the visual world paradigm. Results showed that participants fixated L1 competitors that overlapped with L2 targets orthographically (but not phonologically) more than unrelated fillers. We conclude that second language learners can rapidly acquire novel letter-sound mappings, and words based on these mappings are integrated into the existing lexicon where they can activate orthographic competitors in the native language.
KW - Cross-linguistic competition
KW - Language learning
KW - Language processing
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85017470790
T3 - Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013
SP - 1827
EP - 1832
BT - Cooperative Minds
A2 - Knauff, Markus
A2 - Sebanz, Natalie
A2 - Pauen, Michael
A2 - Wachsmuth, Ipke
PB - The Cognitive Science Society
T2 - 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics, CogSci 2013
Y2 - 31 July 2013 through 3 August 2013
ER -