TY - JOUR
T1 - Reading words in Spanish and English
T2 - Mapping orthography to phonology in two languages
AU - Schwartz, Ana I.
AU - Kroll, Judith F.
AU - Diaz, Michele
N1 - Funding Information:
Correspondence should be addressed to: Ana I. Schwartz, Department of Psychology, 500 West University Ave., University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79902, USA. E-mail: [email protected] This research was supported in part by NSF Grants BCS-0111734 and BCS-0418071 and NIH Grant MH62479 to Judith F. Kroll and NSF Dissertation Grant BCS-0212571 to Ana I. Schwartz and Judith F. Kroll at Pennsylvania State University.
PY - 2007/1
Y1 - 2007/1
N2 - English-Spanish bilinguals named visually presented words aloud in each language. The words included cognates (e.g., fruit-fruta) and non-cognate translations (e.g., pencil-ládpiz). The cognates were selected so that the orthographic and phonological similarity of their lexical form in each language varied orthogonally. Cognate naming latencies were influenced by the cross-language match of the orthographic and phonological codes. When the orthographic forms were similar in the two languages, naming latencies were slowed by dissimilar phonology, providing evidence for feed-forward activation from orthography to phonology across languages. When the orthographic forms were dissimilar, the effects of the corresponding phonological match were not statistically reliable. The results suggest that lexical access is non-selective across bilinguals' two languages, and that the degree of consistency between orthographic and phonological codes influences the manner in which cross-language competition is manifest. Findings are discussed in terms of feed-forward and feed-backward activation dynamics across languages.
AB - English-Spanish bilinguals named visually presented words aloud in each language. The words included cognates (e.g., fruit-fruta) and non-cognate translations (e.g., pencil-ládpiz). The cognates were selected so that the orthographic and phonological similarity of their lexical form in each language varied orthogonally. Cognate naming latencies were influenced by the cross-language match of the orthographic and phonological codes. When the orthographic forms were similar in the two languages, naming latencies were slowed by dissimilar phonology, providing evidence for feed-forward activation from orthography to phonology across languages. When the orthographic forms were dissimilar, the effects of the corresponding phonological match were not statistically reliable. The results suggest that lexical access is non-selective across bilinguals' two languages, and that the degree of consistency between orthographic and phonological codes influences the manner in which cross-language competition is manifest. Findings are discussed in terms of feed-forward and feed-backward activation dynamics across languages.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33847610732&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=33847610732&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01690960500463920
DO - 10.1080/01690960500463920
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33847610732
SN - 0169-0965
VL - 22
SP - 106
EP - 129
JO - Language and Cognitive Processes
JF - Language and Cognitive Processes
IS - 1
ER -