Investigating the Portuguese-English Bilingual Mental Lexicon: Crosslinguistic Orthographic and Phonological Overlap in Cognates and False Friends

Investigating the Portuguese-English Bilingual Mental Lexicon: Crosslinguistic Orthographic and Phonological Overlap in Cognates and False Friends

This dissertation investigates how cognates are organized in the bilingual mental lexicon and examines whether orthography in one language, via phonological representations, influences the processing of cognates and false friends in the other language. In light of the framework of two well-known mod...

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Main Author: Alves-Soares, Leonardo
Other Authors: Munoz-Liceras, Juana
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2020
Subjects:
bilingual mental lexicon
Portuguese
English
Portuguese-English bilinguals
English functional monolinguals
cognates
false friends
crosslinguistic overlap
crosslinguistic similarity
semantic
lexical decision task
LDT
masked priming
spreading activation
RHM
BIA
BIA+
Multilink
orthographic representations
phonological representations
dynamic time warping
DTW
Normalized Levenshtein Distance
NLD
mixed-effects models
lmer
glmer
reaction time
accuracy
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41153
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-25377

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http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41153
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-25377

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