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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Phonology
  • Bilingualism

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  • Investigating lexical competition in early bilinguals.
  • Understanding phonological processing in Cantonese-English speakers.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine Cantonese word categorization under maximal lexical competition.
  • To analyze the impact of language dominance on phonological error patterns.

Main Methods:

  • A Cantonese word categorization task was administered.
  • Participants viewed a target word and four image competitors (tone, rhyme, onset).
  • Listener language dominance (Cantonese vs. English) was assessed.

Main Results:

  • English-dominant bilinguals made more errors than Cantonese-dominant bilinguals.
  • Error type proportions were similar across language dominance groups.
  • Phonological error patterns indicated a hierarchy of distinctive features in Cantonese.

Conclusions:

  • Language dominance influences overall error rates but not error types in Cantonese word recognition.
  • Phonological units like tone, rhyme, and onset play distinct roles in differentiating Cantonese words.
  • Findings support a hierarchical model of phonological feature importance in lexical access for bilinguals.