Word recognition and lexical access: Connectionist approaches

Cruse, D. Alan; Hundsnurscher, Franz; Job, Michael; Lutzeier, Peter Rolf

doi:10.1515/9783110171471.2.38.1722

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“…Essentially, previous masked priming studies using both translation equivalents and interlingual homophones as stimuli have uniformly indicated that crosslinguistic phonological similarity facilitates the processing of targets. In terms of theory, those phonological-based faciliatory effects are interpreted as implying that phonological information is stored in an integrated manner in the bilingual lexicon and, as a result, the representations of words in the two languages can activate one another (e.g., Dijkstra, 2005).…”

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Cognate translation priming with Chinese–Japanese bilinguals: No effect of interlingual phonological similarity.

Liu¹,

Wanner-Kawahara

Yoshihara

et al. 2023

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Previous masked translation priming studies, especially those with different-script bilinguals, have shown that cognates provide more priming than noncognates, a difference attributed to cognates’ phonological similarity. In our experiments employing a word naming task, we examined this issue for Chinese–Japanese bilinguals in a slightly different way, using same-script cognates as primes and targets. In Experiment 1, significant cognate priming effects were observed. The sizes of the priming effects were, however, statistically not different for phonologically similar (e.g., 信赖/xin4lai4/-信頼/shiNrai/) and dissimilar cognate pairs (e.g., 保证/bao3zheng4/-保証 /hoshoR/), suggesting no impact of phonological similarity. In Experiment 2, using exclusively Chinese stimuli, we demonstrated a significant homophone priming effect using two-character logographic primes and targets, indicating that phonological priming is possible for two-character Chinese targets. However, priming only emerged for pairs that had the same tone pattern (e.g., 守卫/shou3wei4/-首位/shou3wei4/), suggesting that a match in lexical tone is crucial for observing phonologically based priming in that situation. Therefore, Experiment 3 involved phonologically similar Chinese–Japanese cognate pairs in which the similarity of their suprasegmental phonological features (i.e., lexical tone and pitch-accent information) was varied. Priming effects were statistically not different for tone/accent similar pairs (e.g., 关心/guan1xin1/-関心/kaNsiN/) and dissimilar pairs (e.g., 满足/man3zu2/-満足/maNzoku/). Our results indicate that phonological facilitation is not involved in producing cognate priming effects for Chinese–Japanese bilinguals. Possible explanations, based on underlying representations of logographic cognates, are discussed.

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Cognate translation priming with Chinese–Japanese bilinguals: No effect of interlingual phonological similarity.

Liu¹,

Wanner-Kawahara

Yoshihara

et al. 2023

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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“…Lexical data, such as phonological, orthographic, and semantic representations, are retrieved using the mental lexicon (Dijkstra, 2005). Assuming concurrent coactivation of L1 and L2, research on bilingual lexical processing has shown that those retrieval mechanisms are language nonselective (Kroll et al, 2014).…”

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Cross-Linguistic Structural Priming on the Lexico-Syntactic Representations of Cebuano-English Bilinguals

Benonguil

Balones

2023

JELTAL

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The effect of previously processed grammatical structure on its subsequent production is referred to as structural priming to explore syntax representations in bilingual brains. This psycholinguistic inquiry investigated the active-passive alternation syntactic category and whether bilingual representations of the first language (Cebuano) and second language (English) are more integrated considering the L2 proficiency. This study conducted two structural priming experiments on 60 Cebuano-English bilinguals from a randomized population exposed to a prime type with verb type manipulation. Research subjects formed their responses concerning the target response drawings. Responses were classified as active, passive, and other to assess priming effects. Additionally, this study followed the mixed between-and-within-subjects design. Priming effects were established in the two studies using the mixed-effects logistic regression analysis. Cross-linguistic priming was found in Study 1 (English to Cebuano) in both verb types with a p-value of (< .001). However, cross-linguistic priming was not found in Study 2 (Cebuano to English) in both verb types with a p-value of (0.242). Active utterances were profound in both studies rather than passive structures. The L2 proficiency of the research subjects was statistically significant in Study 1 and not significant in Study 2. This further means that second language proficiency affects Cebuano language production more than English. With the greater likelihood of active utterances, research subjects have not integrated the syntax of both languages, mainly attributed to different language experiences, constituent word order, and unbalanced bilingual proficiency capabilities.

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“…In the light of this observation, one may wonder to what extent the recognition of COGNATES is influenced by lateral inhibition between their two readings. In particular, the widely replicated cognate facilitation effect indicates that any decelerating processing consequences of lateral inhibition between the two orthographic readings of a cognate are usually more than compensated for by the facilitatory resonance between orthographic and semantic codes (Dijkstra, 2005).…”

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Orthographic and semantic priming effects in neighbour cognates: Experiments and simulations

Dijkstra

Peeters²,

Hieselaar³

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Bilingualism

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To investigate how orthography and semantics interact during bilingual visual word recognition, Dutch–English bilinguals made lexical decisions in two masked priming experiments. Dutch primes and English targets were presented that were either neighbour cognates (boek – BOOK), noncognate translations (kooi – CAGE), orthographically related neighbours (neus – NEWS), or unrelated words (huid - COAT). Prime durations of 50 ms (Experiment 1) and 83 ms (Experiment 2) led to similar result patterns. Both experiments reported a large cognate facilitation effect, a smaller facilitatory noncognate translation effect, and the absence of inhibitory orthographic neighbour effects. These results indicate that cognate facilitation is in large part due to orthographic-semantic resonance. Priming results for each condition were simulated well (all r's >.50) by Multilink+, a recent computational model for word retrieval. Limitations to the role of lateral inhibition in bilingual word recognition are discussed.

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Word recognition and lexical access: Connectionist approaches

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Cognate translation priming with Chinese–Japanese bilinguals: No effect of interlingual phonological similarity.

Cognate translation priming with Chinese–Japanese bilinguals: No effect of interlingual phonological similarity.

Cross-Linguistic Structural Priming on the Lexico-Syntactic Representations of Cebuano-English Bilinguals

Orthographic and semantic priming effects in neighbour cognates: Experiments and simulations

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