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Delayed picture naming in the first and second language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2020

Wouter P. J. Broos ,
Alice Bencivenni ,
Wouter Duyck  and
Robert J. Hartsuiker
Wouter P. J. Broos
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University
Alice Bencivenni
Affiliation:
Università degli studi di Pavia
Wouter Duyck
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University
Robert J. Hartsuiker*
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University
*
Address for correspondence: R.J. Hartsuiker, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2 B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, [email protected]
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Abstract

Second language (L2) speakers produce speech more slowly than first language (L1) speakers. This may be due to a delay in lexical retrieval, but it is also possible that the delay is situated at later stages. This study used delayed picture naming to test whether late production stages (leading up to articulation) are slower in L2 than in L1. Dutch–English unbalanced bilinguals performed a regular and a delayed picture naming task in English and Dutch. Monolingual English controls performed these tasks in English. Speakers were slower when naming pictures in L2 during regular picture naming but not in delayed naming. Reaction time costs of using L2 did not vary with phonological complexity, but there was a larger L2 cost in accuracy with more complex words. We conclude that the very last stages prior to articulation are not significantly slower when bilinguals name pictures in their L2.

Keywords

second language delaypicture namingarticulation
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Research Article
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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , March 2021 , pp. 389 - 400
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