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4 - Psycholinguistic Approaches to Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology

from Part I - Approaches to Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

By
María Fernanda Gavino  and
Matthew Goldrick
Edited by
Mark Amengual
Mark Amengual
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Cruz
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Summary

Psycholinguistic theories conceptualize the mind as a set of mechanical processes that map between levels of mental representation. Cognition is seen as a form of computation, emerging from the interaction of these processes. We explore how this conceptualization frames psycholinguistic research questions. We first examine how the idea of “mind as computer” leads psycholinguists to examine two broad types of questions. Some studies focus on the structure of mental representations (e.g., are “similar” speech sounds associated with one vs. two representations across languages?). Others focus on the number and nature of processes underlying behavior (e.g., to what extent do speech perception and speech production rely on distinct vs. shared processes?). We then turn to connectionism, a specific computational framework that has dominated psycholinguistic theories of bilingualism. Connectionism’s conceptualization of processing as spreading activation has driven studies of representation and processing. We conclude by considering how psycholinguistic theories can inform as well as be informed by other perspectives

Keywords

coactivationswitching costsinhibitionconnectionist frameworkcognatemixed language contextsingle language contextcascading activationcued picture naming taskvoice onset timephonemesphonesvisual world eye-tracking taskphonological categoryphonetic category
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The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology , pp. 86 - 103
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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