Cathy D Martins
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 277246 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Cathy D Martins |
| NOMBRES | Cathy D |
| APELLIDO | Martins |
| FIRMA | MARTINS C D |
| AFILIACIONES | Ikerbasque |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2701-5045 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Immediate creation of spelling expectations during explicit versus implicit auditory word learning
Same vowels, distinct sounds
Previous research on bilingual speech production has mainly examined individuals whose first languages (L1s) differ in vowel inventories, often focusing on individual vowels and revealing distinct phonetic realizations for cross-language similar sounds. However, little is known about whether bilinguals with identical vowel inventories phonetically distinguish between their two L1s. This study examined the acoustic characteristics of 38 Basque–Spa…
Partial lexical and complete semantic suppression of a task-irrelevant language in bilingual word recognition
Previous studies suggest that bilinguals can quickly identify the language to which a word belongs in order to suppress a task-irrelevant language. The current study tested whether nontarget language suppression occurs at the lexical and/or semantic levels and whether the degree of processing differs across these representational levels. Spanish–Basque bilinguals classified words by language membership and animacy, and event-related potential (ER…
The interaction of auditory acuity and L2 input in suprasegmental cue-weighting shifts after study abroad
This longitudinal study investigates how auditory acuity and the amount of second language (L2) input lead learners to shift L2 cue-weighting strategies towards native norms in an immersion context. Thirty Mandarin-speaking students were tested on Spanish lexical stress perception upon arrival (T1) and before leaving Spain after one academic year (T2). Due to cross-linguistic influence, the learners placed more weight on pitch for stress percepti…
Cross-modal interactions in language production
The speech elicitation task affects temporal but not spectral properties in trilinguals’ speech production
The impact of speaker accent on discourse processing
Cognate facilitation effect on verb-based semantic prediction in L2 is modulated by L2 proficiency
We tested whether verb-based prediction in late bilinguals is facilitated when the verb is a cognate versus non-cognate. Spanish–English bilinguals and Chinese–English bilinguals (control) listened to English sentences such as “The girl will adopt the dog” while viewing a scene containing either a dog and unadoptable objects (predictable condition) or a dog and other adoptable animals (unpredictable condition). The verb was either a cognate or no…
Move, Rove, Love
Seeing written forms of novel words during learning can help memorize vocabulary, but it may alter pronunciation, especially when orthography is opaque like in English. This study investigated whether a color-code helps participants learn novel words with unpredictable pronunciation. Sixty Spanish speakers learned 16 English-like pseudowords in one of three training conditions. Audio group learned training items with the auditory word form only. …
Phonetic and Lexical Crosslinguistic Influence in Early Spanish-Basque-English Trilinguals
A central question in multilingualism research is how multiple languages interact. Most studies have focused on first (L1) and second language (L2) effects on a third language (L3), but a small number of studies dedicated to the opposite transfer direction have suggested stronger L3 influence on L2 than on L1 in postpuberty learners. In our study, we provide further support for stronger L3-to-L2 than L3-to-L1 influence and show that it extends to…
Interference between non-native languages during trilingual language production
Most research on multilingual language control has focused on a bilingual’s first (L1) and second (L2) languages. Studies on third language (L3) acquisition suggest that, despite the L1 being more proficient, L3 learners experience more L2 than L1 interference. However, little is known about how a trilingual’s L2 and L3 interact after initial stages of language learning. In the current study (Experiment 1: 30 Spanish-Basque-English trilinguals; E…
In Search of Variables Explaining Individual Differences in Second Language Learning and Processing
Knowledge Gains from the Past and Future Outlook," Distinguished Professor Janet van Hell presented a rigorous review of the most prominent electrophysiological and neuroimaging research on second language (L2) learning and processing and various promising future directions
Metacognition in Second Language Speech Perception and Production
In this study, we assessed metacognition in nonnative language speech perception and production. Spanish novice learners of French identified and produced the French vowel contrast /ø/-/œ/ and, on each trial, rated their confidence in their responses. Participants' confidence in perception predicted their identification accuracy, suggesting that novice learners' metacognitive skills in nonnative speech perception are efficient at the onset of lan…
Orthography affects L1 and L2 speech perception but not production in early bilinguals
Orthography plays a crucial role in L2 learning, which generally relies on both oral and written input. We examine whether incongruencies between L1 and L2 grapheme-phoneme correspondences influence bilingual speech perception and production, even when both languages have been acquired in early childhood before reading acquisition. Spanish–Basque and Basque–Spanish early bilinguals performed an auditory lexical decision task including Basque pseu…
Perro or txakur? Bilingual language choice during production is influenced by personal preferences and external primes
The impact of orthographic forms on speech production and perception
This study investigates the effect of orthographic forms on phonetic aspects of isolated speech sound production and perception. Three groups of 25 L1-Spanish speakers were exposed to /y/ and /ɛ/ in a multi-session learning study. They heard the same vowels presented with: L1-incongruent orthographic forms, novel orthographic forms, or without orthographic forms. After three exposure sessions, participants were tested on vowel production in an el…
Cross-linguistic transfer in bilingual reading is item specific
The grain size of orthographic representations prompted by a consistent orthography (like Spanish or Basque) increases if reading is simultaneously learned in another language with an inconsistent orthography (like French). Here, we aimed to identify item properties that trigger this grain-size accommodation in bilingual reading. Twenty-five French–Basque and 25 Spanish–Basque bilingual children attending Grade 3 read Basque words and pseudowords…
Language control in bilingual production
Most research showing that cognates are named faster than non-cognates has focused on isolated word production which might not realistically reflect cognitive demands in sentence production. Here, we explored whether cognates elicit interference by examining error rates during sentence production, and how this interference is resolved by language control mechanisms. Twenty highly proficient Spanish–English bilinguals described visual scenes with …
Talker and Acoustic Variability in Learning to Produce Nonnative Sounds
Compared to low‐variability training, high‐variability training leads to better learning outcomes and supports generalization of learning. However, it is unclear whether the learning advantage is driven by multiple talkers or by enhanced acoustic variability across target sounds. The current study addressed this issue in nonnative production learning. Spanish speakers were trained to produce the French /e/–/ɛ/ vowel contrast. The stimuli were rec…
Third-language learning affects bilinguals' production in both their native languages
This study examined the impact of a study abroad (SA) English program on English and native vowel production. Basque-Spanish bilingual adolescents were assessed on their vowel production in English, Basque and Spanish before the SA program, the day after the program was completed, and four months later. The results revealed that after the SA program, participants’ English vowels were acoustically closer to English norms, revealing the effectivene…
Bilinguals reading in their second language do not predict upcoming words as native readers do
Characterizing the Bilingual Disadvantage in Noun Phrase Production
Culture, Context, and Homicide of the Elderly
In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the criminal victimization of elderly persons. Given that homicides of the elderly are thought to occur primarily in the context of robbery/burglary situations, this study seeks to identify situational as well as structural and cultural factors that influence the murder of older persons. In particular, it has been noted that Southern culture promotes a notion that one should 'respect their eld…
More Than the Work
This study examines race and gender differences in the burden experienced by family caregivers of the elderly using data from the 1990 Informal Caregivers Survey. Social exchange theory predicts burden to a certain extent based on the caregiving context (e.g., psychological difficulties of the elder and positive aspects of caregiving) and work performed (e.g., hours per week and specific tasks), but race and gender differences independent of the …
Third-language learning affects bilinguals' production in both their native languages
This study examined the impact of a study abroad (SA) English program on English and native vowel production. Basque-Spanish bilingual adolescents were assessed on their vowel production in English, Basque and Spanish before the SA program, the day after the program was completed, and four months later. The results revealed that after the SA program, participants’ English vowels were acoustically closer to English norms, revealing the effectivene…
Talker and Acoustic Variability in Learning to Produce Nonnative Sounds
Compared to low‐variability training, high‐variability training leads to better learning outcomes and supports generalization of learning. However, it is unclear whether the learning advantage is driven by multiple talkers or by enhanced acoustic variability across target sounds. The current study addressed this issue in nonnative production learning. Spanish speakers were trained to produce the French /e/–/ɛ/ vowel contrast. The stimuli were rec…
More Than the Work
This study examines race and gender differences in the burden experienced by family caregivers of the elderly using data from the 1990 Informal Caregivers Survey. Social exchange theory predicts burden to a certain extent based on the caregiving context (e.g., psychological difficulties of the elder and positive aspects of caregiving) and work performed (e.g., hours per week and specific tasks), but race and gender differences independent of the …
Characterizing the Bilingual Disadvantage in Noun Phrase Production
The impact of orthographic forms on speech production and perception
This study investigates the effect of orthographic forms on phonetic aspects of isolated speech sound production and perception. Three groups of 25 L1-Spanish speakers were exposed to /y/ and /ɛ/ in a multi-session learning study. They heard the same vowels presented with: L1-incongruent orthographic forms, novel orthographic forms, or without orthographic forms. After three exposure sessions, participants were tested on vowel production in an el…
The impact of speaker accent on discourse processing
Cognate facilitation effect on verb-based semantic prediction in L2 is modulated by L2 proficiency
We tested whether verb-based prediction in late bilinguals is facilitated when the verb is a cognate versus non-cognate. Spanish–English bilinguals and Chinese–English bilinguals (control) listened to English sentences such as “The girl will adopt the dog” while viewing a scene containing either a dog and unadoptable objects (predictable condition) or a dog and other adoptable animals (unpredictable condition). The verb was either a cognate or no…
Culture, Context, and Homicide of the Elderly
In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the criminal victimization of elderly persons. Given that homicides of the elderly are thought to occur primarily in the context of robbery/burglary situations, this study seeks to identify situational as well as structural and cultural factors that influence the murder of older persons. In particular, it has been noted that Southern culture promotes a notion that one should 'respect their eld…
More Than the Work
This study examines race and gender differences in the burden experienced by family caregivers of the elderly using data from the 1990 Informal Caregivers Survey. Social exchange theory predicts burden to a certain extent based on the caregiving context (e.g., psychological difficulties of the elder and positive aspects of caregiving) and work performed (e.g., hours per week and specific tasks), but race and gender differences independent of the …
Culture, Context, and Homicide of the Elderly
In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the criminal victimization of elderly persons. Given that homicides of the elderly are thought to occur primarily in the context of robbery/burglary situations, this study seeks to identify situational as well as structural and cultural factors that influence the murder of older persons. In particular, it has been noted that Southern culture promotes a notion that one should 'respect their eld…
Characterizing the Bilingual Disadvantage in Noun Phrase Production
Bilinguals reading in their second language do not predict upcoming words as native readers do
Talker and Acoustic Variability in Learning to Produce Nonnative Sounds
Compared to low‐variability training, high‐variability training leads to better learning outcomes and supports generalization of learning. However, it is unclear whether the learning advantage is driven by multiple talkers or by enhanced acoustic variability across target sounds. The current study addressed this issue in nonnative production learning. Spanish speakers were trained to produce the French /e/–/ɛ/ vowel contrast. The stimuli were rec…
Third-language learning affects bilinguals' production in both their native languages
This study examined the impact of a study abroad (SA) English program on English and native vowel production. Basque-Spanish bilingual adolescents were assessed on their vowel production in English, Basque and Spanish before the SA program, the day after the program was completed, and four months later. The results revealed that after the SA program, participants’ English vowels were acoustically closer to English norms, revealing the effectivene…
Cross-linguistic transfer in bilingual reading is item specific
The grain size of orthographic representations prompted by a consistent orthography (like Spanish or Basque) increases if reading is simultaneously learned in another language with an inconsistent orthography (like French). Here, we aimed to identify item properties that trigger this grain-size accommodation in bilingual reading. Twenty-five French–Basque and 25 Spanish–Basque bilingual children attending Grade 3 read Basque words and pseudowords…
Language control in bilingual production
Most research showing that cognates are named faster than non-cognates has focused on isolated word production which might not realistically reflect cognitive demands in sentence production. Here, we explored whether cognates elicit interference by examining error rates during sentence production, and how this interference is resolved by language control mechanisms. Twenty highly proficient Spanish–English bilinguals described visual scenes with …
Orthography affects L1 and L2 speech perception but not production in early bilinguals
Orthography plays a crucial role in L2 learning, which generally relies on both oral and written input. We examine whether incongruencies between L1 and L2 grapheme-phoneme correspondences influence bilingual speech perception and production, even when both languages have been acquired in early childhood before reading acquisition. Spanish–Basque and Basque–Spanish early bilinguals performed an auditory lexical decision task including Basque pseu…
Perro or txakur? Bilingual language choice during production is influenced by personal preferences and external primes
The impact of orthographic forms on speech production and perception
This study investigates the effect of orthographic forms on phonetic aspects of isolated speech sound production and perception. Three groups of 25 L1-Spanish speakers were exposed to /y/ and /ɛ/ in a multi-session learning study. They heard the same vowels presented with: L1-incongruent orthographic forms, novel orthographic forms, or without orthographic forms. After three exposure sessions, participants were tested on vowel production in an el…
Interference between non-native languages during trilingual language production
Most research on multilingual language control has focused on a bilingual’s first (L1) and second (L2) languages. Studies on third language (L3) acquisition suggest that, despite the L1 being more proficient, L3 learners experience more L2 than L1 interference. However, little is known about how a trilingual’s L2 and L3 interact after initial stages of language learning. In the current study (Experiment 1: 30 Spanish-Basque-English trilinguals; E…
In Search of Variables Explaining Individual Differences in Second Language Learning and Processing
Knowledge Gains from the Past and Future Outlook," Distinguished Professor Janet van Hell presented a rigorous review of the most prominent electrophysiological and neuroimaging research on second language (L2) learning and processing and various promising future directions
Metacognition in Second Language Speech Perception and Production
In this study, we assessed metacognition in nonnative language speech perception and production. Spanish novice learners of French identified and produced the French vowel contrast /ø/-/œ/ and, on each trial, rated their confidence in their responses. Participants' confidence in perception predicted their identification accuracy, suggesting that novice learners' metacognitive skills in nonnative speech perception are efficient at the onset of lan…
Phonetic and Lexical Crosslinguistic Influence in Early Spanish-Basque-English Trilinguals
A central question in multilingualism research is how multiple languages interact. Most studies have focused on first (L1) and second language (L2) effects on a third language (L3), but a small number of studies dedicated to the opposite transfer direction have suggested stronger L3 influence on L2 than on L1 in postpuberty learners. In our study, we provide further support for stronger L3-to-L2 than L3-to-L1 influence and show that it extends to…
Cross-modal interactions in language production
The speech elicitation task affects temporal but not spectral properties in trilinguals’ speech production
The impact of speaker accent on discourse processing
Cognate facilitation effect on verb-based semantic prediction in L2 is modulated by L2 proficiency
We tested whether verb-based prediction in late bilinguals is facilitated when the verb is a cognate versus non-cognate. Spanish–English bilinguals and Chinese–English bilinguals (control) listened to English sentences such as “The girl will adopt the dog” while viewing a scene containing either a dog and unadoptable objects (predictable condition) or a dog and other adoptable animals (unpredictable condition). The verb was either a cognate or no…
Move, Rove, Love
Seeing written forms of novel words during learning can help memorize vocabulary, but it may alter pronunciation, especially when orthography is opaque like in English. This study investigated whether a color-code helps participants learn novel words with unpredictable pronunciation. Sixty Spanish speakers learned 16 English-like pseudowords in one of three training conditions. Audio group learned training items with the auditory word form only. …
Immediate creation of spelling expectations during explicit versus implicit auditory word learning
Same vowels, distinct sounds
Previous research on bilingual speech production has mainly examined individuals whose first languages (L1s) differ in vowel inventories, often focusing on individual vowels and revealing distinct phonetic realizations for cross-language similar sounds. However, little is known about whether bilinguals with identical vowel inventories phonetically distinguish between their two L1s. This study examined the acoustic characteristics of 38 Basque–Spa…
Partial lexical and complete semantic suppression of a task-irrelevant language in bilingual word recognition
Previous studies suggest that bilinguals can quickly identify the language to which a word belongs in order to suppress a task-irrelevant language. The current study tested whether nontarget language suppression occurs at the lexical and/or semantic levels and whether the degree of processing differs across these representational levels. Spanish–Basque bilinguals classified words by language membership and animacy, and event-related potential (ER…
The interaction of auditory acuity and L2 input in suprasegmental cue-weighting shifts after study abroad
This longitudinal study investigates how auditory acuity and the amount of second language (L2) input lead learners to shift L2 cue-weighting strategies towards native norms in an immersion context. Thirty Mandarin-speaking students were tested on Spanish lexical stress perception upon arrival (T1) and before leaving Spain after one academic year (T2). Due to cross-linguistic influence, the learners placed more weight on pitch for stress percepti…
Psychology (19 obras) · Linguistics (15 obras) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (13 obras) · Language Development and Disorders (11 obras) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (10 obras) · Reading and Literacy Development (10 obras) · Cognition (8 obras) · Cognitive psychology (8 obras) · Speech production (8 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras)