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University of Texas at El Paso

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Bilingualism

2007

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Language Comprehension In Bilingual Speakers, Ana I. Schwartz, Judith F. Kroll Jan 2007

Language Comprehension In Bilingual Speakers, Ana I. Schwartz, Judith F. Kroll

Ana I Schwartz

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Reading Words In Spanish And English: Mapping Orthography To Phonology In Two Languages, Ana I. Schwartz, Judith F. Kroll, Michele Diaz Jan 2007

Reading Words In Spanish And English: Mapping Orthography To Phonology In Two Languages, Ana I. Schwartz, Judith F. Kroll, Michele Diaz

Ana I Schwartz

English-Spanish bilinguals named visually presented words aloud in each language. The words included cognates (e.g., fruit-fruta) and non-cognate translations, (e.g., pencil-lápiz). The cognates were selected so that the orthographic and phonological similarity of their lexical form in each language varied orthogonally. Cognate naming latencies were influenced by the cross-language match of the orthographic and phonological codes. When the orthographic forms were similar in the two languages, naming latencies were slowed by dissimilar phonology, providing evidence for feed-forward activation from orthography to phonology across languages. When the orthographic forms were dissimilar, the effects of the corresponding phonological match were not statistically …