The Role of Native-Language Phonology in the Auditory Word Identification and Visual Word Recognition of Russian–English Bilinguals  

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Shafiro, Valeriy ; Kharkhurin, Anatoliy V.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Psycholinguistics Research =>ada di SpringerLink 1972(vol.1) - Mutakhir; PROQUEST vol. 38 no. 2 (Apr. 2009), page 93-110.
Topik: Auditory identification · Visual recognition · Bilingual · Phonology · Vowels · Russian · English · Reading
Fulltext: vol. 38 issue 2 April 2009. p. 93 - 110.pdf (300.99KB)

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Does native language phonology influence visual word processing in a second language? This question was investigated in two experiments with two groups of Russian- English bilinguals, differing in their English experience, and a monolingual English control group. Experiment 1 tested visual word recognition following semantic categorization of words containing four phonological vowel contrasts (/i/-/u/, /I/-/v/, /i/-/I/, /E/-/Q/). Experiment 2 assessed auditory identification accuracy of words containing these four contrasts. Both bilingual groups demonstrated reduced accuracy in auditory identification of two English vowel contrasts absent in their native phonology (/i/-/I/, /E/-/Q/). For latebilinguals, auditory identification difficultywas accompanied by poor visualword recognition for one difficult contrast (/i/-/I/). Bilinguals’ visual word recognition moderately correlated with their auditory identification of difficult contrasts. These results indicate that native language phonology can play a role in visual processing of second language words. However, this effect may be considerably constrained by orthographic systems of specific languages.

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