scholarly journals Exploring Learning Context Effects and Grapho(-Phonic)-Phonological Priming in Trilinguals

Languages ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Cintia Avila Blank ◽  
Raquel Llama
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Word Recognition ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Dynamic Systems ◽  
Context Effects ◽  
Group Living ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Dynamic Systems Theory ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Selective Access

A growing body of research on bilingual word recognition suggests that lexical access is language non-selective in nature. This claim aligns with the Dynamic Systems Theory (DST) approach to (multilingual) language acquisition, according to which complex systems involve a large number of elements that interact. In language learners, these interactions lead to the creation and dissolution of patterns as the tasks and environments around them change. In this study, we extend the scope from previous research on word recognition to include the role immersion plays on the transfer of grapho(-phonic)-phonological patterns among (Brazilian Portuguese–French–English) trilinguals. Two groups of participants—one group living in their L1 environment and the other in an L2 setting—were presented with a primed lexical decision task. Besides revealing a high impact of L2 immersion on the processing of grapho(-phonic)-phonological related primes, our results provide further support for the notion of language non-selective access to the lexicon, which seems to generalize to trilingual word recognition. Implications for the DST view of multiple language acquisition are briefly discussed.

scholarly journals On the temporal delay assumption and the impact of non-linguistic context effects

2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Brysbaert ◽  
Ilse van Wijnendaele ◽  
Wouter Duyck
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Context Effects ◽  
Identification System ◽  
Temporal Delay ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Cautionary Note ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Target Article ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Selective Access

It is not easy to comment on Dijkstra and Van Heuven's model because there are many more aspects we agree with than aspects we feel uncomfortable about. Indeed, the BIA model has played an enormous role in showing us how bilingual visual word recognition can be achieved without recurrence to the intuitively appealing – but wrong – ideas of separate, language-specific lexicons and language-selective access. As in many other research areas, a working computational model has been much more influential in convincing critical readers (and researchers) than any series of empirical findings. The BIA+ model inherits this strength and, hopefully, in the coming years will be implemented in enough detail to exceed its predecessor. In the rest of this comment, we would like to put a cautionary note behind the temporal delay assumption introduced in the target article and provide some additional corroborating evidence for the lack of non-linguistic effects on early processes in the identification system.

Stress processing in Mandarin and Korean second language learners of English

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 316-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
CANDISE Y. LIN ◽  
MIN WANG ◽  
WILLIAM J. IDSARDI ◽  
YI XU
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Word Recognition ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Word Frequency ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Vowel Quality ◽  
Stress Processing ◽  
Korean Speakers ◽  
Mandarin Speakers

This study examined stress processing among Mandarin and Korean second language learners of English and English monolinguals. While both English and Mandarin have contrastive stress at the word-level, Korean does not. Consequently, Mandarin speakers may have an advantage over Korean speakers in English stress processing, even when matched for their general English proficiency. Experiment 1 assessed participants’ stress encoding ability for nonwords in a short-term memory task. Experiment 2 examined the effect of stress in online word recognition in a lexical decision task by manipulating word frequency, stress location, and vowel quality. The results of both experiments support an advantage for English and Mandarin speakers over Korean speakers in stress processing of real words and nonwords. Only Korean speakers’ lexical judgment of nonwords was modulated by word frequency, suggesting that they do not utilize stress in lexical access. Only English speakers’ word recognition was facilitated by vowel quality changes. These results suggest that the abilities of non-native speakers to process stress in their L2 is influenced by the characteristics of the stress systems in their L1.

scholarly journals Where does Psychology and Second Language Acquisition research connect? An interview with Zoltan Dornyei

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Dynamic Systems ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
General Area ◽  
Dynamic Systems Theory ◽  
To Come

What is Psycholinguistics? How does it differ from Cognitive Linguistics? Why is this general area of linguistics in the limelight these days? Dr. Zoltan Dornyei is a professor at Nottingham University who is at the forefront of this research. He recently wrote a book titled, The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition (Dornyei, 2009). In it, Dornyei discusses the newer challenges SLA researchers in this century need to come to terms with. He details research of the Critical Period Hypothesis (the connection between emotion and learning), Individual Differences (the implicit/explicit dichotomy), and Dynamic Systems Theory. This interview provides an overview of such recent research and serves as an introduction to his book

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