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3096 ORAL
Language, reading and communication
Chair: Wouter Duyck, UK
3096.1 Orthographic and semantic activation in visual word recognition of Japanese two-kanji
compound words: Does a higher-frequency neighbor interfere with recognition of compound
words? Taeko Ogawa, Hirofumi Saito, Nagoya University, Japan
Recent studies have shown that recognition of a presented word is influenced by knowledge of
words shared with their components, i.e., neighbors. The purpose of this study is to investigate the
activation process of higher-frequency neighbors (HFN) in recognizing two-kanji compound
words. Experiment 1 demonstrates that lexical decision latencies for compounds with HFN of
front-kanji are longer than those for compounds with no HFN. In Experiment 2, the interference
effect is obtained only for compounds with semantically similar neighbors. These results indicate
that semantic similarity between compounds and HFN determines whether HFN interferes with
recognition of compounds.
3096.2 Translation and associative priming with cross-lingual pseudohomophones: Evidence
from Dutch-English bilinguals, Wouter Duyck 1 , Marc Brysbaert 2 , 1 Ghent University, Belgium;
2
Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Using a masked priming paradigm with a lexical decision task performed by Dutch-English
bilinguals, we showed that the recognition of visually presented L1 (e.g. TOUW) and L2 (e.g.
BACK) targets is facilitated by respectively L2 and L1 primes, which are pseudohomophones
(roap and ruch) of the target’s translation equivalent (rope and rug). In two further experiments,
we found that recognition of L2 targets (e.g. CHURCH) was also facilitated by L1
pseudohomophones (e.g. pous) of related words (paus [pope]). Contrastingly, no significant effect
was obtained for L1 targets (e.g. BEEN [leg]) and L2 pseudohomophone associative primes (e.g.
knea).
3096.3 A perfective-imperfective asymmetry in the human mind: Evidence from Cantonese and
Mandarin, Foong Ha Yap, Yi Heng Chan, Li Hai Tan, Stephen Matthews, Ping Li, Chinese
University of Hong Kong, China
Madden & Zwaan (2003) showed that English perfective constructions are processed faster than
imperfective ones, indicating that our mental representation of perfectives may be more readily
retrievable than imperfectives. Our study examines whether this asymmetry holds in Cantonese
and Mandarin. Three reaction time studies are employed: forced-choice comprehension task,
utterance-and-picture matching task, and picture-and-utterance matching task. Experiment 1 yields
faster reaction times for matched perfectives, consistent with English data. Experiments 2 and 3
reveal faster times for matched imperfectives. Our analysis reveals that degree of polyfunctionality
of an aspect marker is also important in determining speed of processing (and retrievability).
3096.4 Acquisition of a matching to sample task under different language modes and
cross-modal transfer, Agustín Daniel Gómez Fuentes 1 , Emilio Ribes Inesta 2 , 1 Universidad
Veracruzana, Mexico, 2 Universidad de Guadalajara. México
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