The influence of native-language phonology on lexical access: exemplar-Based versus abstract lexical entries.
This study used medium-term auditory repetition priming to investigate word-recognition processes. Highly fluent Catalan-Spanish bilinguals whose first language was either Catalan or Spanish were tested in a lexical decision task involving Catalan words and nonwords. Spanish-dominant individuals, but not Catalan-dominant individuals, exhibited repetition priming for minimal pairs differing in only one feature that is nondistinctive in Spanish (e.g.,[see text]), thereby indicating that they processed these words as homophones. This finding provides direct evidence both that word recognition uses a language-specific phonological representation and that lexical entries are stored in the mental lexicon as abstract forms.
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Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistiques, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.
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Sebastián-Gallés
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D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D019303:Multilingualism; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D010700:Phonetics; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D011930:Reaction Time; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D013030:Spain; D013067:Speech Perception; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology