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Another look at cross-language competition in bilingual speech production: Lexical and phonological factors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2004

ALBERT COSTA ,
ÀNGELS COLOMÉ ,
OLGA GÓMEZ  and
NÚRIA SEBASTIÁN-GALLÉS
ALBERT COSTA
Affiliation:
Universitat de Barcelona
ÀNGELS COLOMÉ
Affiliation:
Universitat de Barcelona & Università degli Studi di Trieste
OLGA GÓMEZ
Affiliation:
Universitat de Barcelona
NÚRIA SEBASTIÁN-GALLÉS
Affiliation:
Universitat de Barcelona
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Abstract

How does lexical selection function in highly-proficient bilingual speakers? What is the role of the non-response language during the course of lexicalization? Evidence of cross-language interference was obtained by Hermans, Bongaerts, De Bot and Schreuder (1998) using the picture-word interference paradigm: participants took longer to name the picture when it appeared with a word phonologically related to the target's translation than when it was accompanied by a control (phono-translation interference). Here we report two picture-word interference experiments that explored whether the same pattern of interference is present for highly-proficient bilinguals producing speech in L2. The results of the two experiments partially replicate those of Hermans et al. (1998), revealing the reliability of the phono-translation effect. We discuss some possible loci of this effect during the lexicalization process, and its implications for models of bilinguals speech production.

Type
Research Article
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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , December 2003 , pp. 167 - 179
Copyright
Cambridge University Press 2003

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Footnotes

This research was supported by two grants from the Spanish Government (BSO2001-3492-C04-01) and also by the McDonnell grant ‘Bridging Mind, Brain & Behavior’. Àngels Colomé was supported by a fellowship (FI/FIAP97) from the Comissionat per a Universitats i Recerca de la Generalitat de Catalunya. We would like to thank Xavier Mayoral for his technical support and Scott Sinnett for his comments on previous versions of this manuscript.