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Reading English with Japanese in mind: Effects of frequency, phonology, and meaning in different-script bilinguals*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2013

KOJI MIWA ,
TON DIJKSTRA ,
PATRICK BOLGER  and
R. HARALD BAAYEN
KOJI MIWA*
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta, Canada
TON DIJKSTRA
Affiliation:
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
PATRICK BOLGER
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta, Canada
R. HARALD BAAYEN
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta, Canada & Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Tübingen, Germany
*
Address for the correspondence: Koji Miwa, 4-32 Assiniboia Hall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G2E7, Canadakmiwa@ualberta.ca
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Abstract

Previous priming studies suggest that, even for bilinguals of languages with different scripts, non-selective lexical activation arises. This lexical decision eye-tracking study examined contributions of frequency, phonology, and meaning of L1 Japanese words on L2 English word lexical decision processes, using mixed-effects regression modeling. The response times and eye fixation durations of late bilinguals were co-determined by L1 Japanese word frequency and cross-language phonological and semantic similarities, but not by a dichotomous factor encoding cognate status. These effects were not observed for native monolingual readers and were confirmed to be genuine bilingual effects. The results are discussed based on the Bilingual Interactive Activation model (BIA+, Dijkstra & Van Heuven, 2002) under the straightforward assumption that English letter units do not project onto Japanese word units.

Keywords

bilingual processinglanguage non-selective activationlexical decisioneye movementsJapanese–English bilinguals
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Research Article
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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , July 2014 , pp. 445 - 463
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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The authors are indebted to Marc Brysbaert, Wouter Duyck, Victor Ferreira, Sachiko Kinoshita, Judith Kroll, and Sarah White for their constructive feedback on an earlier version of this manuscript. The authors would also like to thank David Allen and Mariko Nakayama for discussion. Part of this study was presented at the Seventh International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (2010, Windsor, Canada).

Word property data are downloadable from the first author's website (http://www.ualberta.ca/~kmiwa/Publications.html). All appendices referred to in this paper are available via journals.cambridge.org/BIL, in Supplementary Materials accompanying the online copy of the paper.

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