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Cross-lingual neighborhood effects in generalized lexical decision and natural reading

Cross-lingual neighborhood effects in generalized lexical decision and natural reading
Cross-lingual neighborhood effects in generalized lexical decision and natural reading
The present study assessed intra- and cross-lingual neighborhood effects, using both a generalized lexical decision task and an analysis of a large-scale bilingual eye-tracking corpus (Cop, Dirix, Drieghe & Duyck, in press). Using new neighborhood density and frequency measures, the general lexical decision task yielded an inhibitory cross-lingual neighborhood density effect on reading times of second language words, replicating van Heuven, Dijkstra and Grainger (1998). Reaction times for native language words were not influenced by neighborhood density or frequency but error rates showed cross-lingual neighborhood effects depending on target word frequency.
The large-scale eye movement corpus confirmed effects of cross-lingual neighborhood on natural reading, even though participants were reading a novel in a unilingual context. Especially second language reading and to a lesser extent native language reading were influenced by lexical candidates from the non-target language, although these effects in natural reading were largely facilitatory. These results offer strong and direct support for bilingual word recognition models that assume language-independent lexical access
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Dirix, Nicolas
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Dirix, Nicolas, Cop, Uschi, Drieghe, Denis and Duyck, Wouter (2017) Cross-lingual neighborhood effects in generalized lexical decision and natural reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 43 (6), 887-915. (doi:10.1037/xlm0000352).

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The present study assessed intra- and cross-lingual neighborhood effects, using both a generalized lexical decision task and an analysis of a large-scale bilingual eye-tracking corpus (Cop, Dirix, Drieghe & Duyck, in press). Using new neighborhood density and frequency measures, the general lexical decision task yielded an inhibitory cross-lingual neighborhood density effect on reading times of second language words, replicating van Heuven, Dijkstra and Grainger (1998). Reaction times for native language words were not influenced by neighborhood density or frequency but error rates showed cross-lingual neighborhood effects depending on target word frequency.
The large-scale eye movement corpus confirmed effects of cross-lingual neighborhood on natural reading, even though participants were reading a novel in a unilingual context. Especially second language reading and to a lesser extent native language reading were influenced by lexical candidates from the non-target language, although these effects in natural reading were largely facilitatory. These results offer strong and direct support for bilingual word recognition models that assume language-independent lexical access

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Accepted/In Press date: 22 September 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 30 May 2017
Published date: June 2017
Organisations: Cognition

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Local EPrints ID: 402091
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/402091
ISSN: 0278-7393
PURE UUID: 54065041-c08d-4891-ae68-639f9db6cf2d
ORCID for Denis Drieghe: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9630-8410

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Author: Nicolas Dirix
Author: Uschi Cop
Author: Denis Drieghe ORCID iD
Author: Wouter Duyck

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