Neighborhood frequency effects in the late bilingual German-English lexicon

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F25%3A10508909" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/25:10508909 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=kEhZIyv1Rf" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=kEhZIyv1Rf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105863" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105863</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Neighborhood frequency effects in the late bilingual German-English lexicon
Original language description
The bilingual mental lexicon is understood as a unified system containing word forms from multiple languages. Previous studies have described how cross-language phonological similarity influences bilingual lexical processing, demonstrating that lexical activation spreads both within and across languages at the segmental level. The significance of cross-linguistic phonological neighbors in bilingual speech processing is well documented, but less is known about frequency effects emerging from the cross-language neighboring words. In monolingual spoken word recognition, the 'neighborhood frequency effect' suggests that higher-frequency neighbors absorb more activation and/or inhibit lower-frequency neighbors within a phonological neighborhood, potentially affecting recognition latencies. This study examines whether this effect extends across languages in phonological neighborhoods of late German-English bilinguals. Results reveal that lexical frequency rates of German neighbors influence response times for English target words in an English lexical decision task. This finding supports a fully integrated mental lexicon in late bilinguals (i.e., second language learners) and highlights the role of lexical frequency in cross-language lexical processing.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics

Project
<a href="/en/project/EH23_025%2F0008726" target="_blank" >EH23_025/0008726: A lifetime with language: the nature and ontogeny of linguistic communication (LangInLife)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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