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Publication Date: 2012-Jan
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What Do Foreign Neighbors Say about the Mental Lexicon?
Vitevitch, Michael S.
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, v15 spec iss n1 p167-172 Jan 2012
A corpus analysis of phonological word-forms shows that English words have few phonological neighbors that are Spanish words. Concomitantly, Spanish words have few phonological neighbors that are English words. These observations appear to undermine certain accounts of bilingual language processing, and have significant implications for the processing and representation of word-forms in bilinguals. (Contains 1 figure and 4 footnotes.)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, English, Phonology, Spanish, Bilingualism, Vocabulary
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