The perception of language-specific phonetic categories does not guarantee accurate phonological representations in the lexicon of early bilinguals
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MARK AMENGUAL [1]
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[1] University of California, Santa Cruz
University of California, Santa Cruz
Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Applied psycholinguistics, ISSN 0142-7164, Vol. 37, Nº 5, 2016, págs. 1221-1251
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This study examines the perception and processing of the Catalan /e/–/ɛ/ and /o/–/ɔ/ vowel contrasts by 60 Spanish–Catalan bilinguals in Majorca (Spain). Results from binary forced-choice identification, AX discrimination, and lexical decision tasks show that even though these early and highly proficient bilinguals demonstrate a high accuracy in perceptual identification and discrimination tasks, they have difficulties distinguishing between words and nonwords in a lexical decision task. Spanish dominants also exhibited higher error rates than Catalan dominants in the lexical decision task. These findings provide evidence that making explicit judgments regarding whether a certain sound belongs to a phonemic category (i.e., as accomplished via identification and discrimination tasks) does not entail that listeners have an appropriate representation at the lexical level.
