1. How country of origin and stimuli language influence visual word recognition in bilingual children.
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Incera, Sara, Hevia-Tuero, Carmen, Martín, Inés E., and Suárez-Coalla, Paz
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We used mouse tracking to determine how country of origin and stimuli language influence visual word recognition in bilingual children.Children attending bilingual schools in Spain and the USA completed a lexical decision task in English. The task included real English words (e.g.,
true ), and pseudohomophones following Spanish (e.g.,tru ) and English (e.g.,troo ) orthographical rules.Bilingual children from both countries performed worse when responding to English pseudohomophones (within-language interference) than Spanish pseudohomophones (between-language interference).The children from the USA outperformed the children from Spain in almost every measure. Interestingly, their mouse trajectories followed a different pattern.When responding to pseudohomophones, children from the USA showed a pronounced initial deviation toward the incorrect response (likely due to a strong activation of the phonology of the real English word) followed by a very effective corrective movement (likely due to an orthographic verification mechanism).Mouse tracking provides novel insights regarding language activation in bilingual readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2024
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