Spoken Words Activate Cross-Linguistic Orthographic Competitors in the Absence of Phonological Overlap

James Bartolotti; Natalia L. Daniel; Viorica Marian

Spoken Words Activate Cross-Linguistic Orthographic Competitors in the Absence of Phonological Overlap

James Bartolotti, Natalia L. Daniel, Viorica Marian

Communication Sciences and Disorders

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Cooperative Minds
Subtitle of host publication	Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013
Editors	Markus Knauff, Natalie Sebanz, Michael Pauen, Ipke Wachsmuth
Publisher	The Cognitive Science Society
Pages	1827-1832
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9780976831891
State	Published - 2013
Event	35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics, CogSci 2013 - Berlin, Germany Duration: Jul 31 2013 → Aug 3 2013

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Name	Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013

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Conference	35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics, CogSci 2013
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	7/31/13 → 8/3/13

Funding

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.

Keywords

Cross-linguistic competition
Language learning
Language processing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science Applications
Human-Computer Interaction
Cognitive Neuroscience

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Bartolotti, J., Daniel, N. L., & Marian, V. (2013). Spoken Words Activate Cross-Linguistic Orthographic Competitors in the Absence of Phonological Overlap. In M. Knauff, N. Sebanz, M. Pauen, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013 (pp. 1827-1832). (Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013). The Cognitive Science Society.

Bartolotti, James ; Daniel, Natalia L. ; Marian, Viorica. / Spoken Words Activate Cross-Linguistic Orthographic Competitors in the Absence of Phonological Overlap. Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013. editor / Markus Knauff ; Natalie Sebanz ; Michael Pauen ; Ipke Wachsmuth. The Cognitive Science Society, 2013. pp. 1827-1832 (Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013).

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Bartolotti, J, Daniel, NL & Marian, V 2013, Spoken Words Activate Cross-Linguistic Orthographic Competitors in the Absence of Phonological Overlap. in M Knauff, N Sebanz, M Pauen & I Wachsmuth (eds), Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013. Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013, The Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1827-1832, 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics, CogSci 2013, Berlin, Germany, 7/31/13.

Spoken Words Activate Cross-Linguistic Orthographic Competitors in the Absence of Phonological Overlap. / Bartolotti, James; Daniel, Natalia L.; Marian, Viorica.
Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013. ed. / Markus Knauff; Natalie Sebanz; Michael Pauen; Ipke Wachsmuth. The Cognitive Science Society, 2013. p. 1827-1832 (Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013).

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Bartolotti J, Daniel NL, Marian V. Spoken Words Activate Cross-Linguistic Orthographic Competitors in the Absence of Phonological Overlap. In Knauff M, Sebanz N, Pauen M, Wachsmuth I, editors, Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013. The Cognitive Science Society. 2013. p. 1827-1832. (Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013).

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