Ota Mitsuhiko, Hartsuiker Robert J, Haywood Sarah L
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Cognition. 2009 May;111(2):263-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.12.007. Epub 2009 Feb 23.
To test the hypothesis that native language (L1) phonology can affect the lexical representations of nonnative words, a visual semantic-relatedness decision task in English was given to native speakers and nonnative speakers whose L1 was Japanese or Arabic. In the critical conditions, the word pair contained a homophone or near-homophone of a semantically associated word, where a near-homophone was defined as a phonological neighbor involving a contrast absent in the speaker's L1 (e.g., ROCK-LOCK for native speakers of Japanese). In all participant groups, homophones elicited more false positive errors and slower processing than spelling controls. In the Japanese and Arabic groups, near-homophones also induced relatively more false positives and slower processing. The results show that, even when auditory perception is not involved, recognition of nonnative words and, by implication, their lexical representations are affected by the L1 phonology.
为了验证母语（L1）音系会影响非母语词汇表征这一假设，对以日语或阿拉伯语为母语的本族语者和非本族语者进行了一项英语视觉语义相关性判断任务。在关键条件下，单词对包含一个语义相关词的同音词或近同音词，其中近同音词被定义为涉及说话者母语中不存在的对比的语音邻接词（例如，对于日语母语者来说是ROCK-LOCK）。在所有参与者组中，同音词比拼写对照词引发了更多的误报错误和更慢的处理速度。在日语和阿拉伯语组中，近同音词也相对引发了更多的误报和更慢的处理速度。结果表明，即使不涉及听觉感知，非母语词汇的识别以及由此推断的它们的词汇表征也会受到母语音系的影响。
