The interplay of phonology and orthography in visual cognate word recognition: an ERP study

This study examined the role of phonological and orthographic overlap in the recognition of cognate words by recording electrophysiological and behavioral data. One hundred and ninety-two words were selected: 96 cognate words listed according to their phonological and orthographic overlap vs. 96 non...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Comesaña, Montserrat (author)
Outros Autores: Sánchez-Casas, R. (author), Soares, A. P. (author), Pinheiro, Ana P. (author), Rauber, Andréia Schurt (author), Frade, Sofia (author), Fraga, Isabel (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2012
Assuntos:
Cognate words
Phonological and orthographic overlap
Masked priming
Science & Technology
Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/20828
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/20828
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Resumo:This study examined the role of phonological and orthographic overlap in the recognition of cognate words by recording electrophysiological and behavioral data. One hundred and ninety-two words were selected: 96 cognate words listed according to their phonological and orthographic overlap vs. 96 noncognate words. Twenty-four proficient European Portuguese-English bilinguals performed a silent reading task with a masked priming paradigm. The results showed that phonology interacts with semantic activation at N400 modulations. Phonological priming effects were dependent on the orthographic overlap of cognate words. Thus, the distinctive processing of cognate words seems to be due to their cross-linguistic similarity, which is consistent with a localist connectionist account on cognate representation and processing.

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