Speaker Accent Modulates the Effects of Orthographic and Phonological Similarity on Auditory Processing by Learners of English

Frances, Candice; Navarra-Barindelli, Eugenia; Martin, Clara D.

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.892822

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“…This may have created a propensity for the subjects in this study to erroneously adopt it for English, which is their subsequent language, and could thus manifest as more mistakes in the task. In a similar vein, Frances et al (2022) suggested that rules in the native language can negatively impact the process of mapping orthography to phonology in the subsequent language, especially if the native language is transparent while the subsequent language is opaque. Additionally, a quantitative study showed that at least 50% of the most common words in modern Malay are borrowed from Arabic ( Zaidan et al, 2015 ).…”

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Effects of orthographic transparency on rhyme judgement

et al. 2023

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This study investigated the influence of multiliteracy in opaque orthographies on phonological awareness. Using a visual rhyme judgement task in English, we assessed phonological processing in three multilingual and multiliterate populations who were distinguished by the transparency of the orthographies they can read in (N = 135; ages 18–40). The first group consisted of 45 multilinguals literate in English and a transparent Latin orthography like Malay; the second group consisted of 45 multilinguals literate in English and transparent orthographies like Malay and Arabic; and the third group consisted of 45 multilinguals literate in English, transparent orthographies, and Mandarin Chinese, an opaque orthography. Results showed that all groups had poorer performance in the two opaque conditions: rhyming pairs with different orthographic endings and non-rhyming pairs with similar orthographic endings, with the latter posing the greatest difficulty. Subjects whose languages consisted of half or more opaque orthographies performed significantly better than subjects who knew more transparent orthographies than opaque orthographies. The findings are consistent with past studies that used the visual rhyme judgement paradigm and suggest that literacy experience acquired over time relating to orthographic transparency may influence performance on phonological awareness tasks.

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Effects of orthographic transparency on rhyme judgement

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“…In general, it is important to keep in mind that the degree to which L1 influences L2 depends on interactions with noise or other acoustic manipulations such as accent (see Frances et al, 2022), and other factors known to affect lexical processing such as frequency and phonological neighborhood density among other linguistic properties (Dijkstra, 2003).…”

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Noise Modulates Crosslinguistic Effects on Second-Language Auditory Word Recognition

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Navarra-Barindelli

Martin

2023

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose: This study investigates whether crosslinguistic effects on auditory word recognition are modulated by the quality of the auditory signal (clear and noisy). Method: In an online experiment, a group of Spanish–English bilingual listeners performed an auditory lexical decision task, in their second language, English. Words and pseudowords were either presented in the clear or were embedded in white auditory noise. Target words were varied in the degree to which they overlapped in their phonological form with their translation equivalents and were categorized according to their overlap as cognates (form and meaning) or noncognates (meaning only). In order to test for effects of crosslinguistic competition, the phonological neighborhood density of the targets' translations was also manipulated. Results: The results show that crosslinguistic effects are impacted by noise; when the translation had a high neighborhood density, performance was worse for cognates than for noncognates, especially in noise. Conclusions: The findings suggest that noise increases lexical competition across languages, as it does within a language, and that the crosslinguistic phonological overlap for cognates compared with noncognates can further increase the pool of competitors by co-activating crosslinguistic lexical candidates. The results are discussed within the context of the bilingual word recognition literature and models of language and bilingual lexical processing.

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“…With respect to language coactivation, studies comparing modality have mostly looked at the effects of orthographic versus phonological word form overlap across languages (cognates). Across several studies (e.g., Cornut et al, 2022; Dijkstra et al, 1999; Frances et al, 2022), cognate facilitation effects appear larger when word forms across languages are comparable in orthography (as compared to phonology). This suggests that orthography might influence language coactivation more strongly than phonological information.…”

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Do accent and input modality modulate processing of language switches in bilingual language comprehension?

Coumel,

Liu,

Trenkic

et al. 2024

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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We examined how bilinguals process language switches between their first (L1) and second language (L2). Language switching costs (slower responses to language switch than nonswitch trials) appear to arise more systematically in production than in comprehension, possibly because the latter context might sometimes elicit less language coactivation (Declerck et al., 2019). This might reduce language competition and in turn the need for bilinguals to apply language control when processing language switches. Yet even in comprehension, language coactivation may vary depending on variables such as the accent of the speaker (e.g., whether the L2 words are pronounced with an L1 or L2 accent) and input modality (spoken or written). In three experiments conducted during 2021-2022, we tested how unbalanced Mandarin-English bilinguals processed language switches during comprehension and the potential influence of a speaker's accent and input modality. Overall, across settings, participants experienced significant language switching costs. In some conditions, switching costs were larger to L1-Mandarin than to L2-English, an asymmetry consistent with the participants' dominance in L1-Mandarin and the application of language control. However, manipulating accent and input modality did not influence language switches, suggesting they did not impact language coactivation sufficiently to modulate language control. Public Significance StatementThis study investigates how bilinguals process language switches between their first and their second language. The results suggest that, across a variety of experimental settings, Mandarin-English bilinguals experience language switching costs when comprehending words. That is, being exposed to language switches induces a processing cost and increases the time needed to process incoming language input. However, processing of language switches did not seem to be modulated by variation in speaker accent (i.e., whether the words the bilinguals heard were pronounced by a native or nonnative speaker of the target language) and input modality (i.e., whether the bilinguals heard or read the words).

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Speaker Accent Modulates the Effects of Orthographic and Phonological Similarity on Auditory Processing by Learners of English

Cited by 4 publications

References 47 publications

Effects of orthographic transparency on rhyme judgement

Effects of orthographic transparency on rhyme judgement

Noise Modulates Crosslinguistic Effects on Second-Language Auditory Word Recognition

Do accent and input modality modulate processing of language switches in bilingual language comprehension?

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