The role of word familiarity in Spanish/English bilingual word recognition

Shi, Lu-Feng; Sánchez, Diana Constanza

doi:10.3109/14992027.2010.527862

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“…In order to assert the validity and reliability of a speech test, the principle of phonemic balance (PB) has been applied for a long time in the development of monosyllabic materials [16][17][18] . Other important principles in designing speech test materials are the familiarity of test items and the number of test items [2,16,19] . Typically, 50-items word lists are adopted in word recognition tests [2,15,18,20] .…”

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Development of a Turkish Monosyllabic Word Recognition Test for Adults

Durankaya¹,

Serbetcioglu²,

Dalkılıç³

et al. 2014

Int Adv Otol

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OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to develop a Turkish-specific speech recognition test, considering phonemic balance, homogeneity, and familiarity criteria. MATERIALS and METHODS:The most frequently used Turkish monosyllabic words were selected from the corpus. Thirty-six young adults with normal hearing were divided into two groups and asked to listen to words from the word pool; the words were given twice at six different intensity levels. The least and most frequently known words were identified and eliminated in order to provide homogeneity. Three word lists, each composed of 50 phonemically balanced words, were developed to be used in the tests. These lists were divided into two according to the phonemic balance criteria. RESULTS:No statistically significant difference was found among the word lists. Furthermore, the internal reliability of each list was analyzed using KR-20 and was found to be above 98% for all lists. CONCLUSION:The lists derived from the Turkish language were ascertained to be appropriate for use. As a result of using the developed lists to test individuals with various auditory pathologies, it will be possible to assess the lists' capability to distinguish pathological cases according to the location of the pathology.

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Development of a Turkish Monosyllabic Word Recognition Test for Adults

Durankaya¹,

Serbetcioglu²,

Dalkılıç³

et al. 2014

Int Adv Otol

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“…Shi and Sanchez (2011 ) have found that word familiarity aff ected word recognition in monolingual tasks. In a study of aphasia, researchers have found that word familiarity aff ects reaction time and accuracy in vocabulary acquisition tasks; a similar result was also found in an auditory task (Dorry, 2010).…”

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Bilingual Memory Representations in Less Fluent Chinese–English Bilinguals: An Event-Related Potential Study

Chen

Zhang

et al. 2015

Psychol Rep

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The present study was designed to investigate bilingual memory representations in less fluent Chinese-English bilinguals and the effect of word familiarity on bilingual memory representations with a translation priming paradigm and the event-related potential (ERP) technique. Three factors (translation order, word familiarity, and repetition status) were manipulated in this study, and the major dependent variable was the magnitude of the N400 repetition effect, which is related to semantic expectation and is an important physiological index of language processing. The results confirmed the asymmetry in bilingual memory with stronger L2-LI links compared to L1-L2 links in less fluent Chinese-English bilinguals, and that word familiarity was an important factor in the memory representations of these less fluent bilinguals.

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“…Word recognition in listeners as a function of language dominance has been frequently reported in the literature (e.g., Shi & Morozova, 2012;Shi & Sánchez, 2011;Shi & Zaki, 2014), but those studies could not pinpoint the source for this intergroup difference. Shi and Morozova (2012), for example, focused their investigation on phonemic errors (mainly an acoustic-phonetic phenomenon but complicated by a possible lexical effect), whereas Shi and Sánchez (2011) examined the effect of word familiarity. As such, the Boothroyd and Nittrouer (1988) approach used in this study offered a unique avenue for assessing both cues in two groups of nonnative listeners differing in their language background.…”

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“…Language dominance captures a bilingual individual's language profile and has been reliably used to characterize bilingual participants in past work involving auditory recognition of linguistic materials (Shi & Morozova, 2012;Shi & Sánchez, 2011;Shi & Zaki, 2014). Fourteen and 15 nonnative listeners reported English and Russian to be their dominant language on the Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (Marian, Blumenfeld, & Kaushanskaya, 2007) and included the English-dominant (ED) and Russiandominant (RD) group, respectively.…”

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Acoustic–Phonetic Versus Lexical Processing in Nonnative Listeners Differing in Their Dominant Language

Shi

Koenig

2016

Am J Audiol

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Language background is important for nonnative word recognition. Lexical skills can be regarded as nativelike in ED nonnative listeners. Compromised word recognition in ED listeners is unlikely a result of poor lexical processing. Performance should be interpreted with caution for listeners dominant in their first language, whose word recognition is affected by both lexical and acoustic-phonetic factors.

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The role of word familiarity in Spanish/English bilingual word recognition

Abstract: Despite high familiarity of most test words, clinicians should be aware of the residual effects of familiarity on the English word test even after most unfamiliar words are removed, regardless of clients' language dominance.

Cited by 20 publications

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Development of a Turkish Monosyllabic Word Recognition Test for Adults

Development of a Turkish Monosyllabic Word Recognition Test for Adults

Bilingual Memory Representations in Less Fluent Chinese–English Bilinguals: An Event-Related Potential Study

Acoustic–Phonetic Versus Lexical Processing in Nonnative Listeners Differing in Their Dominant Language

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