Abstract
The present study investigated the issue of nonselective phonological access in different-script bilinguals. Korean-English bilinguals participated in two masked phonological priming experiments with Korean primes and English targets. A significant cross-linguistic phonological priming effect was found when the prime was phonologically similar to the target. This priming effect was not modulated by the degree of phonological overlap (one-syllable prime vs. two-syllable prime) between the prime and target. These results provide evidence in support of the Bilingual Interactive Activation Plus (BIA+) model’s claims of nonselective access in bilinguals. The absence of an interaction between degree of overlap and priming is discussed in terms of excitatory and inhibitory connections in models of bilingual word recognition.
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