Lexical access in bilingual speech production: Evidence from language switching in highly proficient bilinguals and L2 learners

2004 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Costa ◽  
Mikel Santesteban
Keyword(s):  
Speech Production ◽  
Lexical Access ◽  
Language Switching ◽  
L2 Learners

Lexical Access in Bilingual Speech Production: ERP Correlates From Language Switching in Highly Proficient Bilinguals and L2 Learners

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristof Strijkers ◽  
Albert Costa ◽  
Mikel Santesteban ◽  
Robert Hartsuiker ◽  
Carles Escera
Keyword(s):  
Speech Production ◽  
Lexical Access ◽  
Language Switching ◽  
L2 Learners

scholarly journals Relating Lexical Access and Second Language Speaking Performance

Languages ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Yu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Speech Production ◽  
Lexical Access ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Speech Rate ◽  
Lexical Retrieval ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
L2 Learners ◽  
Study Support ◽  
Speaking Performance

Vocabulary plays a key role in speech production, affecting multiple stages of language processing. This pilot study investigates the relationships between second language (L2) learners’ lexical access and their speaking fluency, speaking accuracy, and speaking complexity. Fifteen L2 learners of Chinese participated in the experiment. A task-specific, native-referenced vocabulary test was used to measure learners’ vocabulary size and lexical retrieval speed. Learners’ speaking performance was measured by thirteen variables. The results showed that lexical access was significantly correlated with learners’ speech rate, lexical accuracy, syntactic accuracy, and lexical complexity. Vocabulary size and lexical retrieval speed were significant predictors of speech rate. However, vocabulary size and lexical retrieval speed each affected learners’ speaking performance differently. Learners’ speaking fluency, accuracy, and complexity were all affected by vocabulary size. No significant correlation was found between lexical retrieval speed and syntactic complexity. Findings in this study support the Model of Bilingual Speech Production, revealing the significant role lexical access plays in L2 speech production.

Is lexical selection in bilingual speech production language-specific? Further evidence from Spanish–English and English–Spanish bilinguals

1999 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Costa ◽  
Alfonso Caramazza
Keyword(s):  
Speech Production ◽  
Lexical Access ◽  
Picture Naming ◽  
Facilitatory Effect ◽  
Lexical Selection ◽  
Bilingual Speakers ◽  
L2 Spanish ◽  
Naming Latencies ◽  
Spanish Bilinguals

In this study we address the question of how lexical selection is achieved by bilingual speakers during speech production. Specifically, we test whether there is competition between the two lexicons of a bilingual during lexical access. In two picture–word interference experiments we explore the performance of two groups of bilinguals, English–Spanish and Spanish–English proficient bilinguals while naming pictures either in their L1 (Spanish) or in their L2 (Spanish). Picture naming was facilitated when the name of the picture and the distracter word were the “same”, regardless of the language in which the distracter was printed: same-language (e.g., mesa–mesa [table in Spanish]) or different-language pairs (e.g., mesa–table). The magnitude of this facilitatory effect was similar when naming in L1 (Experiment 1) and in L2 (Experiment 2). We also found that naming latencies were slower when the distracter word was semantically related to the picture's name (e.g., mesa–chair), regardless of the language in which the distracter was printed. The results suggest that there is no competition between the two lexicons of a bilingual during lexical access for production. This interpretation favors a model of lexical access in which lexical selection is language-specific both when speaking in L1 and in L2.

Gesture, Speech, and Lexical Access: The Role of Lexical Movements in Speech Production

1996 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 226-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances H. Rauscher ◽  
Robert M. Krauss ◽  
Yihsiu Chen
Keyword(s):  
Speech Production ◽  
Lexical Access

scholarly journals A theory of lexical access in speech production

1999 ◽  
Vol 22 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Willem J. M. Levelt ◽  
Ardi Roelofs ◽  
Antje S. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Speech Production ◽  
Lexical Access

Lexical accessing for ambiguous words among advanced Chinese L2 learners

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-231
Author(s):  
Helen H. Shen
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Access ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Contextual Cues ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Word Analysis ◽  
Ambiguous Words ◽  
The Us ◽  
L2 Learners ◽  
Meaning Frequency ◽  
Polysemous Words

Abstract This study investigated factors associated with and strategies used by advanced Chinese L2 learners in accessing the meanings of commonly used polysemous words (lexically ambiguous words) in sentential reading. The participants included 26 learners of Chinese from a Midwest university in the US. The results showed that word frequency, meaning frequency of polysemous words, and learners’ knowledge of polysemous words affected successful lexical access in sentential contexts. Learners mainly used five types of strategies to solve lexical ambiguity problems, of which three were more frequently used: contextual cues, the intra-word analysis method, and the dominant meaning cue. Contextual cues were the most frequently used strategy.

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