Phonological Activation in Bilinguals: Interlingual Homographs in a Native Context
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2024-06-26
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Research on the bilingual word recognition system favours the nonselective access hypothesis, but the role of phonology is often overlooked. The current study aimed to investigate how phonological overlap in interlingual homographs influences word recognition in Dutch-English bilinguals. More specifically, the objective was to identify whether phonological activation of the nontarget language is present during bilingual word recognition. Additionally, the effects of proficiency were tested with the use of a short questionnaire. A lexical decision task was conducted in a completely native context. The critical stimuli consisted of phonologically identical interlingual homographs (SLIM: /slɪm/-/slɪm/) and phonologically nonidentical interlingual homographs (ANGEL: /ˈeɪn.dʒəl/-/ˈɑŋəl/). The results indicated a smaller inhibition effect on accuracy and response times for identical homographs than for nonidentical homographs. These findings are in line with the nonselective access hypothesis and show phonological activation of the nontarget language in bilingual word recognition. There was no significant correlation found between level of proficiency and amplitude of the inhibition effect. All the results are discussed within the frame
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