scholarly journals Orthography affects L1 and L2 speech perception but not production in early bilinguals*

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Antje Stoehr ◽  
Clara D. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Speech Perception ◽  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Speech Production ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Reading Aloud ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Auditory Lexical Decision ◽  
L1 And L2

Abstract Orthography plays a crucial role in L2 learning, which generally relies on both oral and written input. We examine whether incongruencies between L1 and L2 grapheme-phoneme correspondences influence bilingual speech perception and production, even when both languages have been acquired in early childhood before reading acquisition. Spanish–Basque and Basque–Spanish early bilinguals performed an auditory lexical decision task including Basque pseudowords created by replacing Basque /s̻/ with Spanish /θ/. These distinct phonemes take the same orthographic form, <z>. Participants also completed reading-aloud tasks in Basque and Spanish to test whether speech sounds with the same orthographic form were produced similarly in the two languages. Results for both groups showed orthography had strong effects on speech perception but no effects on speech production. Taken together, these findings suggest that orthography plays a crucial role in the speech system of early bilinguals but does not automatically lead to non-native production.

scholarly journals Orthographic Effects in Speech Perception: Evidence from an Auditory Lexical Decision Task with Brazilian Speakers of English

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-169
Author(s):  
Alison Roberto Gonçalves ◽  
Rosane Silveira
Keyword(s):  
Speech Perception ◽  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Auditory Lexical Decision

O presente estudo investigou efeitos ortográficos em uma tarefa de percepção da fala realizada por falantes brasileiros de inglês. O estudo empregou um léxico artificial que simulava relações grafo-fônicas opacas e transparentes do inglês em posição nuclear (deit, toud). Participantes aprenderam esse novo conjunto de palavras através de um paradigma de treinamento de exposição repetida, no qual foram inicialmente introduzidas formas fonológicas associadas aos seus pares visuais, seguidas de associações às suas representações ortográficas. Uma tarefa de decisão lexical auditiva foi administrada após o treinamento. Resultados indicaram que a consistência ortográfica não afetou o tempo de reação dos sujeitos com o léxico que haviam aprendido, embora o tempo de reação com palavras opacas tenha sido maior. No entanto, a ortografia influenciou o tempo de reação registrado para palavras com as quais participantes não haviam recebido treinamento. Entretemos que ter que realizar análise lexical de palavras desconhecidas levou os participantes a recrutarem a ortografia como um mecanismo que auxilia na análise lexical. O recrutamento ortográfico foi concebido, então, como um processo estratégico que auxilia a decisão lexical em tarefas auditivas temporalizadas.

scholarly journals Orthographic Effects in Speech Perception: Evidence from an Auditory Lexical Decision Task with Brazilian Speakers of English

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (51) ◽  
pp. 153-169
Author(s):  
Alison Roberto Gonçalves ◽  
Rosane Silveira
Keyword(s):  
Speech Perception ◽  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Auditory Lexical Decision

O presente estudo investigou efeitos ortográficos em uma tarefa de percepção da fala realizada por falantes brasileiros de inglês. O estudo empregou um léxico artificial que simulava relações grafo-fônicas opacas e transparentes do inglês em posição nuclear (deit, toud). Participantes aprenderam esse novo conjunto de palavras através de um paradigma de treinamento de exposição repetida, no qual foram inicialmente introduzidas formas fonológicas associadas aos seus pares visuais, seguidas de associações às suas representações ortográficas. Uma tarefa de decisão lexical auditiva foi administrada após o treinamento. Resultados indicaram que a consistência ortográfica não afetou o tempo de reação dos sujeitos com o léxico que haviam aprendido, embora o tempo de reação com palavras opacas tenha sido maior. No entanto, a ortografia influenciou o tempo de reação registrado para palavras com as quais participantes não haviam recebido treinamento. Entretemos que ter que realizar análise lexical de palavras desconhecidas levou os participantes a recrutarem a ortografia como um mecanismo que auxilia na análise lexical. O recrutamento ortográfico foi concebido, então, como um processo estratégico que auxilia a decisão lexical em tarefas auditivas temporalizadas.

scholarly journals Can a connectionist model explain the processing of regularly and irregularly inflected words in German as L1 and L2?

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tilo Strobach ◽  
Ute Schönpflug
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Picture Naming ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Connectionist Model ◽  
Respective Group ◽  
Specific Advantage ◽  
L1 And L2 ◽  
Regular Verb

The connectionist model is a prevailing model of the structure and functioning of the cognitive system of the processing of morphology. According to this model, the morphology of regularly and irregularly inflected words (e.g., verb participles and noun plurals) is processed in the same cognitive network. A validation of the connectionist model of the processing of morphology in German as L2 has yet to be achieved. To investigate L2-specific aspects, we compared a group of L1 speakers of German with speakers of German as L2. L2 and L1 speakers of German were assigned to their respective group by their reaction times in picture naming prior to the central task. The reaction times in the lexical decision task of verb participles and noun plurals were largely consistent with the assumption of the connectionist model. Interestingly, speakers of German as L2 showed a specific advantage for irregular compared with regular verb participles.

Testing the storage of prosody-induced phonetic detail via auditory lexical decision

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-164
Author(s):  
Arne Lohmann ◽  
Benjamin V. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Lexical Representation ◽  
Acoustic Properties ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Environment Impact ◽  
Auditory Lexical Decision ◽  
Verb Bias ◽  
Phonetic Detail ◽  
Noun Bias

Abstract This article reports the results of an auditory lexical decision task, testing the processing of phonetic detail of English noun/verb conversion pairs. The article builds on recent findings showing that the frequent occurrence in certain prosodic environments may lead to the storage of prosody-induced phonetic detail as part of the lexical representation. To investigate this question with noun/verb conversion pairs, ambicategorical stimuli were used that exhibit systematic occurrence differences with regard to prosodic environment, as indicated by either a strong verb-bias, e.g., talk (N/V) or a strong noun-bias, e.g., voice (N/V). The auditory lexical decision task tests whether acoustic properties reflecting either the typical or the atypical prosodic environment impact the processing of recordings of the stimuli. In doing so assumptions about the storage of prosody-induced phonetic detail are tested that distinguish competing model architectures. The results are most straightforwardly accounted for within an abstractionist architecture, in which the acoustic signal is mapped onto a representation that is based on the canonical pronunciation of the word.

Stress properties of Greek compounds: Psycholinguistic considerations

2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-50
Author(s):  
Athanasios Tsiamas ◽  
Gonia Jarema ◽  
Eva Kehayia ◽  
Gevorg Chilingaryan
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
Cognitive Status ◽  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Underlying Structure ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Auditory Lexical Decision

AbstractTheoretical accounts of Greek compounds argue for a close relation between their stress properties and their underlying structure. Compounds that preserve and receive stress at the same position as their second constituent are analyzed as stem-word constructions, while those that receive antepenultimate stress are viewed as belonging to the stem-stem category. Using an auditory lexical decision task, we examine the effect of stress change on the processing of compounds in the light of existing theoretical linguistic accounts. Although our experimental results do not reach statistical significance, we believe that they are informative of the cognitive status and role of stress in compound processing. Finally, they relate to existing theories of compounding in Greek and reflect the complex interaction of the psycholinguistic effects of stress and the structural properties of these constructions.

scholarly journals Do dyslexics have auditory input processing difficulties?

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
MADS POULSEN
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Phonological Processing ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Phonological Deficit ◽  
Word Level ◽  
Input Processing ◽  
Auditory Lexical Decision ◽  
Low Performance ◽  
Phoneme Perception

ABSTRACTWord production difficulties are well documented in dyslexia, whereas the results are mixed for receptive phonological processing. This asymmetry raises the possibility that the core phonological deficit of dyslexia is restricted to output processing stages. The present study investigated whether a group of dyslexics had word level receptive difficulties using an auditory lexical decision task with long words and nonsense words. The dyslexics were slower and less accurate than chronological age controls in an auditory lexical decision task, with disproportionate low performance on nonsense words. The finding suggests that input processing difficulties are associated with the phonological deficit, but that these difficulties may be stronger above the level of phoneme perception.

Semantic processing in aphasia: Evidence from an auditory lexical decision task

1982 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila E. Blumstein ◽  
William Milberg ◽  
Robin Shrier
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Semantic Processing ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Auditory Lexical Decision
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