title: Second language phonology influences first language word naming.
abstract: The Masked Onset Priming Effect (MOPE) has been reported in speakers' first languages (L1). The aims of the present study are to investigate whether second language (L2) phonology is active during L1 reading, and to disentangle the contributions of orthography and phonology in reading aloud. To this end, Dutch-English bilinguals read aloud L1 target words primed by L2 words, while electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded. The onset of the primes was manipulated to disentangle the contributions of orthography and phonology (i.e. O+P+: kite - KUNST, 'art'; O+P-: knee - KUNST; O-P+: crime - KUNST; O-P-: mine - KUNST). Phonological but not orthographic overlap facilitated RTs. However, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) revealed both orthographic and phonological priming starting 125 ms after target presentation. Taken together, we gained insights into the time course of cross-linguistic priming and demonstrated that L2 phonology is activated rapidly in an L1 environment.
authors.affiliation: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Canada. Electronic address: kalinkatimmer@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Kalinka
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Timmer
authors.affiliation: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; Brain and Education Lab, Education and Child Studies, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Lesya Y
authors.initials: LY
authors.lastname: Ganushchak
authors.affiliation: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Ilse
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ceusters
authors.affiliation: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Niels O
authors.initials: NO
authors.lastname: Schiller
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D019303:Multilingualism; D010700:Phonetics; D011932:Reading; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Cross-linguistic priming; Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion; Masked onset priming effect; Models of reading aloud; Reading aloud