Does Spanish knowledge contribute to accurate English word spelling in adult bilinguals?
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Rigobon, V. M., Gutiérrez, N., Edwards, A. A., Abes, D., Steacy, L. M. and Compton, D. C.. (2023). Does Spanish knowledge contribute to accurate English word spelling in adult bilinguals? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 26(5), pp. 924-941. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728923000093
Authors | Rigobon, V. M., Gutiérrez, N., Edwards, A. A., Abes, D., Steacy, L. M. and Compton, D. C. |
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Abstract | Correctly spelling an English word requires a high-quality orthographic representation. When faced with spelling a complex word without a high-quality representation, spellers often rely on other knowledge sources (e.g., incomplete stored orthographic forms, phonological to orthographic relationships) to spell it. For bilinguals, another potentially facilitative source is knowledge of a word's lexical and sublexical representations in another language. In the current study we considered simultaneous effects of word-level (e.g., frequency, cognate status) and person-level (e.g., English spelling skill, prompting, bilingual status) predictors on college students’ complex English word spelling. Monolinguals (English; n = 42) significantly outperformed bilinguals (Spanish and English; n = 76) on non-cognate spelling; no group differences emerged for cognate spelling accuracy. Within bilinguals, significantly higher spelling performance on cognates compared to non-cognates suggests cognate facilitation, with no prompting effects. Findings expand an interdisciplinary framework of understanding bilinguals’ activation and use of cross-linguistic representations in spelling. |
Keywords | bilingualism; spelling; cognates; cognate facilitation effect; individual differences |
Year | 2023 |
Journal | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition |
Journal citation | 26 (5), pp. 924-941 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
ISSN | 1366-7289 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728923000093 |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Page range | 924-941 |
Funder | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 07 Mar 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 20 Jan 2023 |
Deposited | 29 Nov 2023 |
Supplemental file | File Access Level Open |
Grant ID | P20HD091013 |
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