Visual word recognition of Chinese-Japanese bilinguals: limited role of phonology.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The investigation of how orthography and phonology influence lexical semantic access in visual word identification is a crucial area in psycholinguistics. Previous studies, focusing on alphabetic scripts in bilingual lexical recognition, have highlighted the facilitative role of phonological similarity. Yet, the impact of cross-language phonological similarity in bilinguals using non-alphabetic scripts remains unclear.

Methods

In this study, we employed a lexical decision task to examine Chinese-Japanese bilinguals. Participants were presented with Chinese-Japanese cognate translation pairs, categorized into phonologically similar and dissimilar cognates.

Results

Analysis of event-related potentials (ERP) revealed no significant differences between phonol

SUBMITTER: Jiao Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10794726 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature