Neighborhood frequency effects in the late bilingual German-English lexicon

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Neighborhood frequency effects in the late bilingual German-English lexicon

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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 &apos;neighborhood frequency effect&apos; 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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Neighborhood frequency effects in the late bilingual German-English lexicon

Popis výsledku anglicky

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 &apos;neighborhood frequency effect&apos; 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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EH23_025%2F0008726" target="_blank" >EH23_025/0008726: Celý život s jazykem: povaha a ontogeneze jazykové komunikace (LangInLife)</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Acta Psychologica

ISSN

0001-6918

e-ISSN

1873-6297

Svazek periodika

261

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

105863

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

nestránkováno

Kód UT WoS článku

001616138300007

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105020782449