Bilingualism research has primarily focused on the perception and processing of individual sounds or word learning. Many studies have investigated how bilingual listeners perceive sound contrasts that don't create lexical distinctions in their native language. There is substantially less research that has investigated how word-level properties impact L2 auditory processing. The present study examines how auditory lexical processing differs between monolingual and bilingual listeners with different language backgrounds. We collected lexical decision accuracies and latencies for 26,793 words and 9600 pseudowords from the Massive Auditory Lexical Decision database from native and non-native listener responses. We compare the language backgrounds of our 1028 listeners and group them into four groups: native speakers, early, early-late, and late bilinguals. We report the findings of an analysis investigating how language background and proficiency modulate lexical effects to understand how language background influences spoken word recognition. We find differences in the effects of lexical frequency, phonological neighborhood density, and phonological uniqueness point between the different listener groups. We discuss the impact of bilingualism in a word recognition task and how these results inform models of spoken word recognition and second language acquisition.
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March 2023
March 01 2023
Multilingual spoken word recognition: A megastudy approach
Benjamin V. Tucker;
Benjamin V. Tucker
Commun. Sci. & Disord., Northern Arizona Univeristy, 4-32 Assiniboia Hall, University of AB, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E7, Canada, [email protected]
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Annika Nijveld
Annika Nijveld
Linguist., Univ. of AB, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 153, A341 (2023)
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Benjamin V. Tucker, Scott J. Perry, Annika Nijveld; Multilingual spoken word recognition: A megastudy approach. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 March 2023; 153 (3_supplement): A341. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0019083
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