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On the Locus of L2 Lexical Fuzziness: Insights From L1 Spoken Word Recognition and Novel Word Learning
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In: Front Psychol (2021)
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The examination of how words are learned can offer valuable insights into the nature of lexical representations. For example, a common assessment of novel word learning is based on its ability to interfere with other words; given that words are known to compete with each other (Luce and Pisoni, 1998; Dahan et al., 2001), we can use the capacity of a novel word to interfere with the activation of other lexical representations as a measure of the degree to which it is integrated into the mental lexicon (Leach and Samuel, 2007). This measure allows us to assess novel word learning in L1 or L2, but also the degree to which representations from the two lexica interact with each other (Marian and Spivey, 2003). Despite the somewhat independent lines of research on L1 and L2 word learning, common patterns emerge across the two literatures (Lindsay and Gaskell, 2010; Palma and Titone, 2020). In both cases, lexicalization appears to follow a similar trajectory. In L1, newly encoded words often fail at first to engage in competition with known words, but they do so later, after they have been better integrated into the mental lexicon (Gaskell and Dumay, 2003; Dumay and Gaskell, 2012; Bakker et al., 2014). Similarly, L2 words generally have a facilitatory effect, which can, however, become inhibitory in the case of more robust (high-frequency) lexical representations. Despite the similar pattern, L1 lexicalization is described in terms of inter-lexical connections (Leach and Samuel, 2007), leading to more automatic processing (McMurray et al., 2016); whereas in L2 word learning, lack of lexical inhibition is attributed to less robust (i.e., fuzzy) L2 lexical representations. Here, I point to these similarities and I use them to argue that a common mechanism may underlie similar patterns across the two literatures.
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Psychology
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8295481/ https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689052
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Lip-Reading Enables the Brain to Synthesize Auditory Features of Unknown Silent Speech
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In: J Neurosci (2020)
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Dynamic EEG analysis during language comprehension reveals interactive cascades between perceptual processing and sentential expectations.
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In: Brain Lang (2020)
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Any leftovers from a discarded prediction? Evidence from eye-movements during sentence comprehension ...
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Lexical and sublexical effects on visual word recognition in Greek: comparing human behavior to the dual route cascaded model ...
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Lexical and sublexical effects on visual word recognition in Greek: comparing human behavior to the dual route cascaded model ...
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Is it a word yet? Discussing the definition of lexicality in the context of word learning ...
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Training Alters the Resolution of Lexical Interference: Evidence for Plasticity of Competition and Inhibition
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