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Alsaigh, Tahani N. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examines second language activation in Arabic-English bilinguals for whom Arabic was the first language. Modeling its design on Colome (2001), the research compared processing in a picture-phoneme matching task for Arabic-English bilinguals tested in the United States or in Saudi Arabia to determine whether activation of English…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Semitic Languages, Bilingualism, Native Language
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Smits, Erica; Sandra, Dominiek; Martensen, Heike; Dijkstra, Ton – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
Dutch-English participants named words and nonwords with a between-language phonologically inconsistent rime, e.g., GREED and PREED, and control words with a language-typical rime, e.g., GROAN, in a monolingual stimulus list or in a mixed list containing Dutch words. Inconsistent items had longer latencies and more errors than typical items in the…
Descriptors: Rhyme, Monolingualism, Interference (Language), Word Frequency
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Seiger-Gardner, Liat; Brooks, Patricia J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2008
Purpose: This study used the cross-modal picture-word interference task of P. J. Brooks and B. MacWhinney (2000) to compare effects of phonologically related words on lexical access in children with specific language impairment (SLI). Method: Children (7;1 [years;months]-11;2) named pictures while ignoring auditory distractors. Three stimulus…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Language Impairments, Rhyme, Interference (Language)