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Modeling the control of phonological encoding in bilingual speakers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2006

ARDI ROELOFS  and
KIM VERHOEF
ARDI ROELOFS
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; F. C., Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Nijmegen
KIM VERHOEF
Affiliation:
Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Nijmegen
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Abstract

Phonological encoding is the process by which speakers retrieve phonemic segments for morphemes from memory and use the segments to assemble phonological representations of words to be spoken. When conversing in one language, bilingual speakers have to resist the temptation of encoding word forms using the phonological rules and representations of the other language. We argue that the activation of phonological representations is not restricted to the target language and that the phonological representations of languages are not separate. We advance a view of bilingual control in which condition-action rules determine what is done with the activated phonological information depending on the target language. This view is computationally implemented in the WEAVER++ model. We present WEAVER++ simulations of the cognate facilitation effect (Costa, Caramazza and Sebastián-Gallés, 2000) and the between-language phonological facilitation effect of spoken distractor words in object naming (Hermans, Bongaerts, de Bot and Schreuder, 1998).

Type
Research Article
Information
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , July 2006 , pp. 167 - 176
Copyright
Cambridge University Press 2006

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Footnotes

We thank Albert Costa and three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments. The preparation of this article was supported by a VICI grant awarded to the first author by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).