Negative Transfer From Spanish and English to Portuguese Pronunciation: The Roles of Inhibition and Working Memory  

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Trude, Alison M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies (Full Text) vol. 61 no. 1 (2011), page 259-280.
Topik: working memory; negative transfer; second-language learning; letter-tosound correspondences
Fulltext: Volume 61, issue 1 (March 2011), p. 259-280.pdf (223.82KB)

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We examined negative transfer from English and Spanish to Portuguese pronunciation. Participants were native English speakers, some of whom spoke Spanish. Participants completed a computer-based Portuguese pronunciation tutorial and then pronounced trained letter-to-sound correspondences in unfamiliar Portuguese words; some shared orthographic form with their translation in Spanish or Spanish and English. Spanishspeaking participants were more accurate and made more Spanish-like than Englishlike errors. Contrary to predictions, non-Spanish speakers made more Spanish-like than English-like errors on cognates. Participants with higher working memory were more accurate and made more Spanish-sounding errors on cognates. The results suggest that the first language is inhibited during second-language production and that higher working memory is associated with an improved ability to inhibit the first language.

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