Orthography and second language word learning
- French participants learned English pseudowords either with the orthographic form displayed under the corresponding picture (Audio-Ortho) or without (Audio). In a naming task, pseudowords learned in the Audio-Ortho condition were produced faster and with fewer errors, providing a first piece of evidence that orthographic information facilitates the learning and on-line retrieval of productive vocabulary in a second language. Formant analyses, however, showed that productions from the Audio-Ortho condition were more French-like (i.e., less target-like), a result confirmed by a vowel categorization task performed by native speakers of English. It is argued that novel word learning and pronunciation accuracy should be considered together. (C) 2019 Acoustical Society of America
Author details: | Audrey Damaris Bürki-FoschiniORCiDGND, Pauline WelbyORCiD, Melanie Clement, Elsa SpinelliORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5094923 |
ISSN: | 0001-4966 |
ISSN: | 1520-8524 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31046311 |
Title of parent work (English): | The journal of the Acoustical Society of America |
Subtitle (English): | Moving beyond "friend or foe?" |
Publisher: | American Institute of Physics |
Place of publishing: | Melville |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2019/04/15 |
Publication year: | 2019 |
Release date: | 2021/03/09 |
Volume: | 145 |
Issue: | 4 |
Number of pages: | 7 |
First page: | EL265 |
Last Page: | EL271 |
Funding institution: | University of Potsdam KoUP Cooperation Funding scheme; BQR grant from LPL; Excellence Initiative of Aix-Marseille University (A*MIDEX)French National Research Agency (ANR); [ANR-16-CONV-0002]; [ANR-11-LABX-0036] |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Bronze Open-Access |