Shafiro Valeriy, Kharkhurin Anatoliy V
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2009 Mar;38(2):93-110. doi: 10.1007/s10936-008-9086-y. Epub 2008 Oct 24.
Does native language phonology influence visual word processing in a second language? This question was investigated in two experiments with two groups of Russian-English bilinguals, differing in their English experience, and a monolingual English control group. Experiment 1 tested visual word recognition following semantic categorization of words containing four phonological vowel contrasts (/i/-/u/,/I/-/A/,/i/-/I/,/epsilon/-/ae/). Experiment 2 assessed auditory identification accuracy of words containing these four contrasts. Both bilingual groups demonstrated reduced accuracy in auditory identification of two English vowel contrasts absent in their native phonology (/i/-/I/,epsilon/-/ae/). For late- bilinguals, auditory identification difficulty was accompanied by poor visual word recognition for one difficult contrast (/i/-/I/). Bilinguals' visual word recognition moderately correlated with their auditory identification of difficult contrasts. These results indicate that native language phonology can play a role in visual processing of second language words. However, this effect may be considerably constrained by orthographic systems of specific languages.
母语语音会影响第二语言的视觉词汇加工吗？这个问题在两项实验中进行了研究，实验对象包括两组俄罗斯 - 英语双语者（他们的英语学习经历不同）以及一个单语英语对照组。实验1测试了对包含四种语音元音对比（/i/-/u/、/I/-/A/、/i/-/I/、/epsilon/-/ae/）的单词进行语义分类后的视觉单词识别。实验2评估了包含这四种对比的单词的听觉识别准确性。两个双语组在对母语语音中不存在的两种英语元音对比（/i/-/I/、/epsilon/-/ae/）的听觉识别中都表现出准确性降低。对于晚期双语者，听觉识别困难伴随着对一种困难对比（/i/-/I/）的视觉单词识别能力较差。双语者的视觉单词识别与他们对困难对比的听觉识别呈中度相关。这些结果表明，母语语音可能在第二语言单词的视觉加工中起作用。然而，这种影响可能会受到特定语言正字法系统的显著限制。
