Cognate effects in picture naming: does cross-language activation survive a change of script?
Bilinguals are faster to name a picture in one language when the picture's name is a cognate in the other language. We asked whether cognate facilitation in picture naming would be obtained for bilinguals whose two languages differ in script. Spanish-English and Japanese-English bilinguals named cognate and noncognate pictures in English, their second language (L2). Cognate facilitation was observed for both groups. The results suggest that there is cross-language activation of phonology even for different-script bilinguals.
Hoshino
Noriko
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The Pennsylvania State University, USA. Noriko.Hoshino@tufts.edu
Kroll
Judith F
JF
D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019303:Multilingualism; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010700:Phonetics; D012660:Semantics; D014956:Writing