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Phonological inconsistency in word naming: Determinants of the interference effect between languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2009

ERICA SMITS ,
DOMINIEK SANDRA ,
HEIKE MARTENSEN  and
TON DIJKSTRA
ERICA SMITS*
Affiliation:
Center for Psycholinguistics, Antwerp University
DOMINIEK SANDRA
Affiliation:
Center for Psycholinguistics, Antwerp University
HEIKE MARTENSEN
Affiliation:
Center for Psycholinguistics, Antwerp University
TON DIJKSTRA
Affiliation:
Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Radboud University, Nijmegen
*
Address for correspondence: Erica Smits, CPL Antwerp University, Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgiumerica.smits@ua.ac.be
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Abstract

Dutch–English participants named words and nonwords with a between-language phonologically inconsistent rime, e.g., GREED and PREED, and control words with a language-typical rime, e.g., GROAN, in a monolingual stimulus list or in a mixed list containing Dutch words. Inconsistent items had longer latencies and more errors than typical items in the mixed lists but not in the pure list. The consistency effect depended on word frequency, but not on language membership, lexicality, or instruction. Instruction did affect the relative speed and number of errors in the two languages. The consistency effect is the consequence of the simultaneous activation of two sublexical codes in the bilinguals' two languages and its size depends on the activation rate of the associated lexical representations (high-frequency words versus low-frequency words and nonwords) and on the decision criteria that monitor the response conflict at the decision level: the timing for responding (time criterion) in each language depends on the composition of the stimulus list and the likelihood of responses in either language.

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Research Article
Information
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 23 - 39
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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