Anticipation processes in L2 speech comprehension: Evidence from ERPs and lexical recognition task
2015; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 19; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s1366728915000486
ISSN1469-1841
AutoresAlice Foucart, Elisa Ruiz-Tada, Albert Costa,
Tópico(s)Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
ResumoThe present study investigated anticipation processes in L2 speech comprehension. French–Spanish late bilinguals were presented with high-constrained Spanish sentences. ERPs were time-locked on the article preceding the critical noun, which was muted to avoid overlapping effects. Articles that mis-matched the gender of the expected nouns triggered a negativity. A subsequent lexical recognition task revealed that words expected from the context were (falsely) recognised significantly more often than unexpected words, even though all were muted. Overall, the results suggest that anticipation processes are at play during L2 speech processing, and allow creating a memory trace of a word prior to presentation.
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