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Phonology in the bilingual Stroop effect.

Hiromi Sumiya1, Alice F Healy

  • 1University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0345, USA.

Memory & Cognition
|November 24, 2004
PubMed
Summary

Bilingual speakers show interference between languages during color naming tasks. Phonological similarity between Japanese and English color words significantly increases this between-language interference.

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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Second Language Acquisition

Background:

  • Bilingual speakers often experience interference between their languages.
  • The Stroop task is a common method for measuring cognitive interference.
  • Understanding cross-linguistic influence is crucial for language processing models.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate between-language interference in proficient Japanese-English bilinguals.
  • To examine the role of phonological similarity in cross-linguistic Stroop effects.
  • To explore lexical access and processing in bilinguals.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a bilingual Stroop task with proficient Japanese-English speakers.
  • Participants performed a color naming task in both Japanese and English.
  • Japanese color terms varied in phonological similarity to English color terms (loanwords vs. traditional terms).

Main Results:

  • A significant between-language Stroop effect was observed in both response languages.
  • The magnitude of interference was greater when Japanese and English color terms were phonologically similar.
  • Orthographic dissimilarity did not prevent between-language interference.

Conclusions:

  • Phonologically similar words in bilingual lexicons have direct connections, facilitating interference.
  • Phonological processing is active during unintentional lexical access in bilinguals.
  • Language interference is influenced by the degree of phonological overlap between languages.

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