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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Bilingualism Research

Background:

  • Understanding phonological processing in bilinguals is crucial for explaining language acquisition and use.
  • Bilingual word naming involves complex interactions between phonological, semantic, and orthographic representations.
  • Previous models have not fully captured the dynamic interplay of cross-language activation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the dynamics of phonological processing during word naming in bilingual individuals.
  • To examine cross-language activation patterns for different types of cognates and homographs.
  • To test predictions of the Bilingual Interactive Activation (BIA+) framework.

Main Methods:

  • English-French and French-English bilinguals participated in the study.
  • Participants named interlingual heterophonic homographs, heterophonic cognates, and interlingual homophones.
  • Single-language control words were used in both English and French naming tasks.

Main Results:

  • Cross-language phonological activation was significantly stronger in the bilinguals' second language.
  • Evidence supports feedforward activation of phonological representations in the nontarget language.
  • Feedback activation from semantic to phonological representations was also observed.

Conclusions:

  • Phonological processing in bilinguals involves robust cross-language activation, particularly in the second language.
  • The findings support a model of interactive activation with both feedforward and feedback mechanisms.
  • The Bilingual Interactive Activation (BIA+) framework effectively accounts for the observed phonological processing dynamics.