The Effect of Orthography on the Lexical Encoding of Palatalized Consonants in L2 Russian
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10255509 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ala Simonchyk (0000-0002-3617-135X, University of Mississippi, corresponding author), Isabelle Darcy (0000-0003-3889-2414, Indiana University) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 522-546 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8309 • E-ISSN: 1756-6053 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0023830918761490 |
| PMID | 29552939 |
| OpenAlex | W2791831160 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 26 |
The current study investigated the potential facilitative or inhibiting effects of orthography on the lexical encoding of palatalized consonants in L2 Russian. We hypothesized that learners with stable knowledge of orthographic and metalinguistic representations of palatalized consonants would display more accurate lexical encoding of the plain/palatalized contrast. The participants of the study were 40 American learners of Russian. Ten Russian native speakers served as a control group. The materials of the study comprised 20 real words, familiar to the participants, with target coronal consonants alternating in word-final and intervocalic positions. The participants performed three tasks: written picture naming, metalinguistic, and auditory word–picture matching. Results showed that learners were not entirely familiar with the grapheme–phoneme correspondences in L2 Russian. Even though they spelled almost all of these familiar Russian words accurately, they were able to identify the plain/palatalized status of the target consonants in these words with about 80% accuracy on a metalinguistic task. The effect of orthography on the lexical encoding was found to be dependent on the syllable position of the target consonants. In intervocalic position, learners erroneously relied on vowels following the target consonants rather than the consonants themselves to encode words with plain/palatalized consonants. In word-final position, although learners possessed the orthographic and metalinguistic knowledge of the difference in the palatalization status of the target consonants—and hence had established some aspects of the lexical representations for the words—those representations appeared to lack in phonological granularity and detail, perhaps due to the lack of perceptual salience
Cognitive psychology · Encoding (memory · Linguistics · Orthography · Reading (process · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Second Language Acquisition and Learning
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| Citations per year | 1.43 |
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |