Bilingualism Reduces Native-Language Interference During Novel-Word Learning
Bilingualism Reduces Native-Language Interference During Novel-Word Learning
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DOI：
10.1037/a0015275
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发表时间：
2009-05-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Marian, Viorica
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作者：
Kaushanskaya, Margarita;Marian, Viorica
本研究的目的是探讨双语对成年人在新词学习过程中解决正字法-音系映射中的跨语言不一致性的影响。英语单语者和英语-西班牙语双语者学习人工构建的新单词，这些单词在拼写上与英语重叠，但在语音上与英语不同。母语的正字法信息在学习过程中干扰编码的新单词在单语，但在双语。一般来说，双语者在单词学习任务中的表现优于单语者。这些研究结果表明，2种语言的知识有利于单词学习和屏蔽英语-西班牙语双语干扰与跨语言的不一致，字母到音素映射。
The goal of the present work was to examine the effects of bilingualism on adults' ability to resolve cross-linguistic inconsistencies in orthography-to-phonology mappings during novel-word learning. English monolinguals and English-Spanish bilinguals learned artificially constructed novel words that overlapped with English orthographically but diverged from English phonologically. Native-language orthographic information presented during learning interfered with encoding of novel words in monolinguals but not in bilinguals. In general, bilinguals outperformed monolinguals on the word-learning task. These findings indicate that knowledge of 2 languages facilitates word learning and shields English-Spanish bilinguals from interference associated with cross-linguistic inconsistencies in letter-to-phoneme mappings.