title: The interplay of phonology and orthography in visual cognate word recognition: an ERP study.
abstract: This study examined the role of phonological and orthographic overlap in the recognition of cognate words by recording electrophysiological and behavioral data. One hundred and ninety-two words were selected: 96 cognate words listed according to their phonological and orthographic overlap vs. 96 noncognate words. Twenty-four proficient European Portuguese-English bilinguals performed a silent reading task with a masked priming paradigm. The results showed that phonology interacts with semantic activation at N400 modulations. Phonological priming effects were dependent on the orthographic overlap of cognate words. Thus, the distinctive processing of cognate words seems to be due to their cross-linguistic similarity, which is consistent with a localist connectionist account on cognate representation and processing.
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Minho, Portugal. mvila@psi.uminho.pt
authors.forename: Montserrat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Comesaña
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Casas
authors.forename: Ana Paula
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Soares
authors.forename: Ana P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Pinheiro
authors.forename: Andreia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rauber
authors.forename: Sofia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Frade
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fraga
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010470:Perceptual Masking / Q000502:physiology*; D010700:Phonetics; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*