35.2601, FYI: Language Attrition Network Reading Group (First meeting this academic year!)

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Subject: 35.2601, FYI: Language Attrition Network Reading Group (First meeting this academic year!)

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Date: 23-Sep-2024
From: Pamela Villar González [attrition.network at gmail.com]
Subject: Language Attrition Network Reading Group (First meeting this academic year!)


Dear Linguist List community,

The Language Attrition Network would like to invite you to our first
session of the current academic year which will take place on the 11th
of October at 2pm CET (1 pm in UK).

Dr. Concepción Soto will be presenting the following paper (abstract
below!):
Soto, C., & Schmid, M. S. (2023). Carrot or parrot? An eye-tracking
study on spoken word recognition in a language attrition context. The
Language Learning Journal, 52(2), 199–217.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2023.2294058
If you have never heard of us but you're interested in Language
Attrition you can send us an e-mail (attrition.network at gmail.com)
and
we will add you to the mailing list where you will receive the link to
the meeting.

Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/language.attrition/

All the best,
LAN planning committee


Abstract:
Spoken word recognition involves the activation of multiple candidate
words competing for selection as speech unfolds. Cohort competitors,
which partially match the onset of the auditory signal, are activated
more strongly than rhyme competitors, which match the ending of the
auditory signal. In bilingualism research, the competition dynamics
used to disambiguate spoken words across languages (i.e.,
between-language competition) have been extensively investigated via
cohort competitors. However, little is known about how bilinguals
process within-language competition using both cohort and rhyme
competitors or the role that diverse bilingual experiences play in
this disambiguation process. This study investigated within-language
competition across three bilingual groups in their first language
(L1): Spanish-English attriters in the UK, Spanish-English sequential
bilinguals in Spain, and Spanish heritage speakers in the UK.
Participants completed a Visual World Paradigm task with manipulation
of onset/rhyme phonological overlap to study the time-course of spoken
word recognition. The study also examined how proficiency, language
use, and other external factors related to second language (L2)
experience modulate L1 spoken word recognition. Results revealed
consistent cohort effects across groups, with a stronger and an
earlier tendency to attend to cohort competitors than rhyme
competitors. However, differences emerged in the duration of rhyme
effects during L1 auditory disambiguation. Spanish sequential
bilinguals retained rhyme competitor information longer than Spanish
heritage speakers and Spanish-English attriters. Second language
proficiency modulated competition dynamics, with higher proficiency
participants less likely to look at rhyme competitors. These findings
suggest that variability in linguistic experience among bilinguals
affects the dynamics of lexical competition in L1.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Neurolinguistics




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