NetWordS 2015 Word Knowledge and Word Usage: Representations and Processes in the Mental LexiconCEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1347

Vol. Vol-1347: Proceedings of the NetWordS Final Conference on Word Knowledge and Word Usage: Representations and Processes in the Mental Lexicon (NetWordS 2015), Pisa, Italy, March 30 - April 1, 2015. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1347, 2015.

Iakovleva T.

Academic editor: A. Piasecki

Editor-in-chief: T. Dijkstra

Under the general editorship: P. Vito, C. Marzi, M. Ferro

Compiler: M. Ferro

This study examines the impact of the crosslinguistic similarity of translation equivalents on word recognition by Russian-English bilinguals, who are fluent in languages with two different but partially overlapping writing systems. Current models for bilingual word recognition, like BIA+, hold that all words that are similar to the input letter string are activated and considered for selection, irrespective of the language to which they belong (Dijkstra and Van Heuven, 2002). These activation models are consistent with empirical data for bilinguals with totally different scripts, like Japanese and English (Miwa et al., 2014). Little is known about the bilingual processing of Russian and English, but studies indicate that the partially distinct character of the Russian and English scripts does not prevent co-activation (Jouravlev and Jared, 2014; Marian and Spivey, 2003; Kaushanskaya and Marian, 2007).

Keywords: чтение, reading, русский алфавит, алфавит, alphabetic scripts, латинский алфавит