This study investigated the effect of cross-linguistic overlap in L1 and L2 auditory recognition of Spanish–English cognates. The study examined the correlation between objective and subjective measures of overlap and analyzed how these measures predict patterns in auditory recognition. 62 Spanish-speaking learners of English and 63 English-speaking learners of Spanish completed two auditory lexical decision tasks in Spanish and English and a rating task, where they rated the perceived phonological similarity of cognates. The results revealed moderate correlations between subjective and objective measures of overlap. While orthographic overlap had no effect, increased phonological overlap facilitated recognition in L1 and L2 Spanish and English and had larger effects in L2 recognition. Perceived similarity was the best predictor among the measures of overlap. The findings support models suggesting that cross-linguistic co-activation is facilitated by increased form similarity and studies reporting modality dependent effects of cross-linguistic form overlap in lexical recognition.

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西班牙语-英语同源词听觉识别中形式重叠的跨语言效应

本研究调查了跨语言重叠对西班牙语-英语同源词的 L1 和 L2 听觉识别的影响。该研究检查了客观和主观重叠测量之间的相关性，并分析了这些测量如何预测听觉识别模式。 62 名讲西班牙语的英语学习者和 63 名讲英语的西班牙语学习者完成了两项西班牙语和英语的听觉词汇决策任务以及一项评分任务，他们对同源词的语音相似性进行了评分。结果显示主观和客观重叠测量之间存在中等相关性。虽然拼写重叠没有影响，但语音重叠的增加促进了 L1 和 L2 西班牙语和英语的识别，并且对 L2 识别有更大的影响。感知相似性是重叠度量中最好的预测因子。研究结果支持模型表明，形式相似性的增加促进了跨语言共激活，并且研究报告了词汇识别中跨语言形式重叠的模态依赖性影响。