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The role of phonology in processing English suffixed words by Chinese–English bilinguals

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Publicado en:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications vol. 12, no. 1 (Dec 2025), p. 241
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Springer Nature B.V.
Materias:
Compositionality
Decomposition
Distributed morphology
Stress
Spelling
Phonology
Influence
Chinese languages
Semantic relations
Semantics
Mental lexicon
Phonological processing
Word recognition
English proficiency
Bilingualism
Priming
Suffixes
Orthography
Linguistics
Literature reviews
Morphological processing
Morphemes
Word meaning
Morphology
Asian cultural groups
Competence
Bilingual people
Temptation
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Resumen:This study examined how phonology, specifically word stress, influences the masked processing of English-suffixed words by non-native speakers. The study included four prime types: TP+ (visualize-VISUAL), TP− (temptation-TEMPT), FP+ (example-EXAM), and FP− (entertain-ENTER). Primes in TP+ (semantically transparent and phonologically congruent) and FP+ (form and phonologically congruent) conditions matched their targets regarding primary stress, whereas primes in TP− (semantically transparent and phonologically incongruent) and FP− (form and phonologically incongruent) conditions exhibited phonological variations compared to their targets. Two groups of English-Chinese bilinguals with different levels of English proficiency (advanced vs lower-intermediate) participated in the study. The results indicated that advanced Chinese–English bilinguals exhibited significant priming effects across all conditions, with TP+ producing a stronger priming effect than TP− and FP+. In contrast, lower-intermediate Chinese–English bilinguals only displayed priming effects for two form-related conditions. Additionally, advanced Chinese–English bilinguals demonstrated more robust priming effects for TP+ than lower-intermediate bilinguals. These findings suggest that in bilingual masked morphological processing, phonological effects facilitate early visual word recognition, while morpho-semantic relationships and L2 proficiency moderate both morphological and phonological effects during early morphological decomposition. These findings challenge the localist view of morphology as a discrete unit in the mental lexicon and support the connectionist view of morphological representations being distributed across spelling, sound, and meaning.
ISSN:2662-9992
2055-1045
DOI:10.1057/s41599-025-04398-7
Fuente:Social Science Database