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Title: | Do you eat 'pasta' for dessert and 'tender' your clothes? A comparison of cross-language activation in Turkish and Spanish learners of English |
Author: | Kelly Iturriaga, Lara Maite |
Director/Tutor: | Mora Bonilla, Joan Carles |
Keywords: | Ensenyament de llengües estrangeres Adquisició d'una segona llengua Anglès Castellà (Llengua) Turc Homònims Vocabulari Treballs de fi de màster Foreign language teaching Second language acquisition English language Spanish language Turkish language Homonyms Vocabulary Master's theses |
Issue Date: | 28-Jun-2022 |
Abstract: | [eng] The present study investigates whether L1 Turkish and L1 Spanish learners of English experience cross-language activation when recognising words that share spelling but differ in meaning across languages, i.e., interlingual homographs (IHs). Two primed lexical decision tasks in English were employed to examine if primes semantically related to the target IH’s L1 meaning – e.g., arena (sand in Spanish) preceded by beach – would entail shorter reaction times. Additionally, this study examines if typological differences between participants’ L1 (Turkish or Spanish) and L2 (English) influence L2 word recognition, a rather understudied relationship. Results from both experiments revealed dual-language activation, as participants recognised interlingual homographs significantly slower than control words. However, no significant differences were found between the Turkish and Spanish group, thus, language typology did not have a significant effect on L2 visual word recognition. Moreover, no cross-language semantic priming effects were found, as IHs were processed slower than control words, which did not hold a semantic relationship with their primes. Importantly, the results from this study support the language-non-selective hypothesis, i.e., the notion that L2 word recognition entails co-activation of languages, even in monolingual settings. |
Note: | Màster de Lingüística Aplicada i Adquisició de Llengües en Contextos Multilingües, Departament de Llengües i Literatures Modernes i d'Estudis Anglesos, Universitat de Barcelona. Curs: 2021-2022. Tutor: Joan Carles Mora Bonilla |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/200354 |
Appears in Collections: | Màster Oficial - Lingüística Aplicada i Adquisició de Llengües en Contextos Multilingües |
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