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Nonword Processing In Bilingual Five Year Olds: Do Phonotactics Count?, Kyna Betancourt
Nonword Processing In Bilingual Five Year Olds: Do Phonotactics Count?, Kyna Betancourt
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Phonotactic processing is foundational to the word processing task in both monolingual and bilingual children (Li & Farkas, 2002; Pierrehumbert, 2001; Shook & Marian, 2013; Storkel & Morrisette, 2002). While the use of phonotactic information in word processing in monolingual children is relatively well documented, it is less well understood in bilingual children. The purpose of this study was to investigate how bilingual kindergartners process the phonotactic probabilities of their two languages. A set of nonwords was developed that manipulated the strength of phonotactic probability across both Spanish and English while also controlling the language environment of the experimental task …