Doctoral Dissertation Research: Mapping Orthography-to-Phonology in Bilingual Word Reading

博士论文研究：双语单词阅读中的正字法到音韵学的映射

• 批准号: 1052926
• 负责人: Carol Miller
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-05-01 至 2013-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1052926&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Mapping; Orthography

With the National Science Foundation support, Ms. Mona Roxana Botezatu will collect data for her doctoral dissertation under the direction of Drs. Carol Miller and Maya Misra. This research will evaluate how differences in letter-sound mapping between a bilingual's first and second languages impact reading in the second language. Past research suggests that word reading skills transfer across writing systems and that bilinguals experience competition between their two print-sound systems. Languages that share a script, such as English and Spanish, differ in their spelling-sound consistency, or the number of pronunciations available for given letter clusters (e.g., consistent: the "-air" in hair, pair; inconsistent: the "-ost" in most, cost). These differences have been shown to affect word-reading strategies. The present research investigates transfer of word-reading strategies in bilinguals who read a second language that differs in spelling-sound consistency from their first language. In a series of five experiments, this issue will be examined by comparing performance across native English speakers and Spanish-English, Dutch-English and Chinese-English bilinguals on an English visual rhyme judgment task. The task requires individuals to make rhyme judgments of visually presented word pairs, while the spelling-sound consistency of the stimuli is varied systematically. To test whether word-reading strategies transfer more robustly when both languages are used within a single task, Dutch-English bilinguals will also be tested on a Dutch-English rhyme judgment task. The goal of this research is to provide converging evidence using behavioral and neurocognitive methods (event-related potentials) to better understand the consequences of native language reading strategy for skilled reading in English. Results will provide critical implications for adapting current models of single word reading to the bilingual lexicon and will ultimately inform literacy instruction practices targeting English language learners.

在国家科学基金会的支持下，莫纳·博特扎图女士将在卡罗尔·米勒博士和玛雅·米斯拉博士的指导下为她的博士论文收集数据。本研究旨在探讨双语者第一语言和第二语言的字母-声音映射差异对第二语言阅读的影响。过去的研究表明，文字阅读技能在不同的书写系统之间转移，双语者在两个印刷-声音系统之间经历竞争。共享脚本的语言（如英语和西班牙语）在拼写声音一致性或给定字母群可用的发音数量方面有所不同（例如，consistent：hair，pair中的“-air”; inconsistent：most，cost中的“-ost”）。这些差异已被证明会影响单词阅读策略。本研究旨在探讨双语者在阅读第二语言时单词阅读策略的迁移。在一系列的五个实验中，这个问题将通过比较英语母语者和西班牙语-英语，荷兰语-英语和中国-英语双语者在英语视觉押韵判断任务上的表现来研究。该任务要求个体对视觉呈现的词对进行押韵判断，而刺激的拼写-声音一致性是系统变化的。为了测试是否单词阅读策略转移更强大时，两种语言都使用在一个单一的任务，荷兰语-英语双语者也将测试荷兰语-英语押韵判断任务。本研究的目的是利用行为和神经认知的方法（事件相关电位）提供证据，以更好地理解母语阅读策略对熟练英语阅读的影响。结果将提供关键的影响，以适应目前的单词阅读的双语词典的模式，并最终告知识字教学的做法，针对英语学习者。