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Nakai, Satsuki; Lindsay, Shane; Ota, Mitsuhiko – Second Language Research, 2015
When both members of a phonemic contrast in L2 (second language) are perceptually mapped to a single phoneme in one's L1 (first language), L2 words containing a member of that contrast can spuriously activate L2 words in spoken-word recognition. For example, upon hearing cattle, Dutch speakers of English are reported to experience activation…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Phonetics, Language Processing