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Proficiency modulates early orthographic and phonological processing in L2 spoken word recognition*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2012

OUTI VEIVO  and
JUHANI JÄRVIKIVI
OUTI VEIVO*
Affiliation:
Department of French, School of Languages and Translation Studies, University of Turku, Finland
JUHANI JÄRVIKIVI
Affiliation:
Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab, Department of Modern Languages, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
*
Address for correspondence: Outi Veivo, French Translation Studies, Koskenniemenkatu 4, 20014 University of Turku, Finland[email protected]
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Abstract

The present study investigated orthographic and phonological processing in L2 French spoken word recognition by Finnish learners of French, using the masked cross-modal priming paradigm. Experiment 1 showed a repetition effect in L2 within-language priming that was most pronounced for high proficiency learners and a significant effect for French pseudohomophones. In the between-language Experiment 2, high proficiency learners showed significant facilitation from L1 Finnish to L2 French shared orthography in the absence of phonological and semantic overlap. This effect was not observed in the lower intermediate group, which showed a significant benefit of L1 pseudohomophones instead. The orthographic effect in the high proficiency group was modulated by subjective familiarity showing facilitation for less familiar but not for highly familiar words. The results suggest that with L2 learners, the extent to which orthographic information affects L2 spoken word recognition depends on their L2 proficiency.

Keywords

spoken word recognitionorthographyphonologymasked cross-modal primingL2 processing
Type
Research Article
Information
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , October 2013 , pp. 864 - 883
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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Footnotes

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We thank the two anonymous referees for their valuable comments and Kevin Diependaele for sharing the materials used in Experiment 1.

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