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The role of deviant-letter position in cognate word processing
| Resumo: | The Bilingual Interactive Activation Plus Model (BIA+; Dijkstra & van Heuven, 2002) is perhaps the most relevant computational model on bilingual word recognition. Although interesting it fails to explain modulations on cognate word processing as a function of deviantletter position (Font, 2001). Thus, the present research aimed to further explore the role of deviant-letter position on cognate word processing by using a masked priming lexical decision task. To that purpose 288 stimuli (144 Portuguese-English translation words [72 cognates and 72 noncognates] and 144 pseudowords) were selected. Cognates were assigned to three experimental conditions according to deviant-letter position: 1) at end of the word (matriz- MATRIX); 2) at the beginning of the word (coala-KOALA); and 3) at the end and at the beginning (escala-SCALE). Twenty-eight proficient Portuguese-English bilinguals took part in the study. The results revealed faster responses for cognates with greater degree of crosslanguage overlap (Conditions 1 and 2). More important, priming effects were not modulated by deviant-letter position and thus no amendments seems to be needed in the “front-end” of the coding scheme of the BIA+ model, at least regarding cognate processing. Future studies should be developed in order to explore if these results are restricted to outer deviant-letters. |
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| Autores principais: | Coelho, Rui Pedro Gomes |
| Assunto: | Cognate word processing BIA+ Deviant-letter Letters’ position Processamento de palavras cognatas Letra que desvia Posição das letras Ciências Sociais::Psicologia |
| Ano: | 2015 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | The Bilingual Interactive Activation Plus Model (BIA+; Dijkstra & van Heuven, 2002) is perhaps the most relevant computational model on bilingual word recognition. Although interesting it fails to explain modulations on cognate word processing as a function of deviantletter position (Font, 2001). Thus, the present research aimed to further explore the role of deviant-letter position on cognate word processing by using a masked priming lexical decision task. To that purpose 288 stimuli (144 Portuguese-English translation words [72 cognates and 72 noncognates] and 144 pseudowords) were selected. Cognates were assigned to three experimental conditions according to deviant-letter position: 1) at end of the word (matriz- MATRIX); 2) at the beginning of the word (coala-KOALA); and 3) at the end and at the beginning (escala-SCALE). Twenty-eight proficient Portuguese-English bilinguals took part in the study. The results revealed faster responses for cognates with greater degree of crosslanguage overlap (Conditions 1 and 2). More important, priming effects were not modulated by deviant-letter position and thus no amendments seems to be needed in the “front-end” of the coding scheme of the BIA+ model, at least regarding cognate processing. Future studies should be developed in order to explore if these results are restricted to outer deviant-letters. |
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