Fuzzy Nonnative Phonolexical Representations Lead to Fuzzy Form-to-Meaning Mappings

The present paper explores nonnative (L2) phonological encoding of lexical entries and dissociates the difficulties associated with L2 phonological and phonolexical encoding by focusing on similarly sounding L2 words that are not differentiated by difficult phonological contrasts. We test two main c...

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Main Authors: Svetlana V Cook, Nick Balint Pandža, Alia Katherine Lancaster, Kira Gor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01345/full