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TY - JOUR
T1 - Changes in the sensitivity to language-specific orthographic patterns with age
AU - Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni
AU - Borragan, Maria
AU - De Bruin, Angela
AU - Casaponsa, Aina
PY - 2020/7/14
Y1 - 2020/7/14
N2 - How do bilingual readers of languages that have similar scripts identify a language switch? Recent behavioral and electroencephalographic results suggest that they rely on orthotactic cues to recognize the language of the words they read in ambiguous contexts. Previous research has shown that marked words with language-specific letter sequences (i.e., letter sequences that are illegal in one of the two languages) are recognized more easily and faster than unmarked words. The aim of this study was to investigate sensitivity to markedness throughout childhood and early adulthood by using a speeded language decision task with words and pseudowords. A large group of Spanish-Basque bilinguals of different ages (children, preteenagers, teenagers and adults) was tested. Results showed a markedness effect in the second language across all age groups that changed with age. However, sensitivity to markedness in the native language was negligible. We conclude that sensitivity to orthotactics does not follow parallel developmental trend in the first and second language.
AB - How do bilingual readers of languages that have similar scripts identify a language switch? Recent behavioral and electroencephalographic results suggest that they rely on orthotactic cues to recognize the language of the words they read in ambiguous contexts. Previous research has shown that marked words with language-specific letter sequences (i.e., letter sequences that are illegal in one of the two languages) are recognized more easily and faster than unmarked words. The aim of this study was to investigate sensitivity to markedness throughout childhood and early adulthood by using a speeded language decision task with words and pseudowords. A large group of Spanish-Basque bilinguals of different ages (children, preteenagers, teenagers and adults) was tested. Results showed a markedness effect in the second language across all age groups that changed with age. However, sensitivity to markedness in the native language was negligible. We conclude that sensitivity to orthotactics does not follow parallel developmental trend in the first and second language.
KW - orthotactics
KW - orthographic patterns
KW - language-specific orthography
KW - orthographic markedness
KW - orthography
KW - reading development
U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01691
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01691
M3 - Journal article
VL - 11
JO - Frontiers in Psychology - Language Sciences
JF - Frontiers in Psychology - Language Sciences
M1 - 1691
ER -