Dynamic effect of tonal similarity in bilingual auditory lexical processing

Junru Wu; Yiya Chen; Vincent J. van Heuven; Niels O. Schiller

doi:10.1080/23273798.2018.1550206

Dynamic effect of tonal similarity in bilingual auditory lexical processing

Junru Wu^*
, Yiya Chen
, Vincent J. van Heuven
, Niels O. Schiller

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Phonological similarity affects bilingual lexical access of etymologically-related translation equivalents (ETEs). Jinan Mandarin (JM) and Standard Chinese (SC) are closely related and share many ETEs, which are usually orthographically and segmentally identical but vary in tonal similarity. Using an auditory lexical decision experiment and Generalised Additive Modelling, the present study investigates how cross-linguistic tonal similarity interacts with language of operation and how the switching of language across blocks influences SC-JM bilinguals’ auditory lexical processing of ETEs. Bilinguals showed a language dominance effect, indicating that ETEs are specified with separated word-form representations. Compared with SC tonal monolinguals, bilinguals showed a discontinuous bilingual auditory lexical advantage, instead of a classical bilingual lexical disadvantage. The dynamic role of cross-linguistic tonal similarity in auditory word processing is discussed in light of the bilinguals’ attentional shift with the change of language mode at the pre-lexical and lexical stages. © 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	580-598
Journal	Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
Volume	34
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2018.1550206
Publication status	Published - 28 May 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Bilingualism
cognate
cross-linguistic similarity
lexical access
tone

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