TY - JOUR
T1 - Spoken word recognition of code-switched words by Chinese-English bilinguals
AU - Li, Ping
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by a Direct Research Grant from the Chinese University of Hong Kong while the author was on the psychology faculty there. Partial support for the preparation of the study was also provided by NIH/NIDCD Grant RO1-DC00216-10 to Elizabeth Bates for the project ‘‘the Crosslinguistic Studies of Aphasia’’ and by a CUHK United Board For Christian Higher Education in Asia Faculty Research Grant and a Student Campus Work Scheme to the author. I am very grateful to Franc¸ois Grosjean for his constructive and insightful discussions during various phases of this study. I also thank Elizabeth Bates, Michael Bond, Melissa Bow-erman, Brian MacWhinney, and Meiti Opie for helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper. Special thanks go to Cynthia Wong and Sylvia Pang for preparing the
PY - 1996/12
Y1 - 1996/12
N2 - Two experiments with Chinese-English bilinguals were conducted to examine the recognition of code-switched words in speech. In Experiment 1, listeners were asked to identify a code-switched word in a sentence on the basis of increasing fragments of the word. In Experiment 2, listeners repeated the code-switched word following a predesignated point upon hearing the sentence. Converging evidence from these experiments shows that the successful recognition of code-switched words depends on the interaction among phonological, structural, and contextual information in the recognition process. The results also indicate that Chinese-English bilinguals can recognize code-switched words with the same amount of information as required by monolingual English listeners. These results are interpreted in terms of parallel activation and interactive processes in spoken word recognition.
AB - Two experiments with Chinese-English bilinguals were conducted to examine the recognition of code-switched words in speech. In Experiment 1, listeners were asked to identify a code-switched word in a sentence on the basis of increasing fragments of the word. In Experiment 2, listeners repeated the code-switched word following a predesignated point upon hearing the sentence. Converging evidence from these experiments shows that the successful recognition of code-switched words depends on the interaction among phonological, structural, and contextual information in the recognition process. The results also indicate that Chinese-English bilinguals can recognize code-switched words with the same amount of information as required by monolingual English listeners. These results are interpreted in terms of parallel activation and interactive processes in spoken word recognition.
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U2 - 10.1006/jmla.1996.0039
DO - 10.1006/jmla.1996.0039
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0030525278
SN - 0749-596X
VL - 35
SP - 757
EP - 774
JO - Journal of Memory and Language
JF - Journal of Memory and Language
IS - 6
ER -