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Anticipation processes in L2 speech comprehension: Evidence from ERPs and lexical recognition task*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2015

ALICE FOUCART ,
ELISA RUIZ-TADA  and
ALBERT COSTA
ALICE FOUCART*
Affiliation:
Center for Brain and Cognition, University Pompeu Fabra, carrer Roc Boronat, 138, 08018 Barcelona, Spain
ELISA RUIZ-TADA
Affiliation:
Center for Brain and Cognition, University Pompeu Fabra, carrer Roc Boronat, 138, 08018 Barcelona, Spain
ALBERT COSTA
Affiliation:
Center for Brain and Cognition, University Pompeu Fabra, carrer Roc Boronat, 138, 08018 Barcelona, Spain ICREA, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain
*
Address for correspondence: Dr. Alice Foucart Universitat Pompeu Fabra Department of Technology (room 55116) Roc Boronat, 138, 08018 BarcelonaSpainalfoucart@gmail.com
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Abstract

The present study investigated anticipation processes in L2 speech comprehension. French–Spanish late bilinguals were presented with high-constrained Spanish sentences. ERPs were time-locked on the article preceding the critical noun, which was muted to avoid overlapping effects. Articles that mis-matched the gender of the expected nouns triggered a negativity. A subsequent lexical recognition task revealed that words expected from the context were (falsely) recognised significantly more often than unexpected words, even though all were muted. Overall, the results suggest that anticipation processes are at play during L2 speech processing, and allow creating a memory trace of a word prior to presentation.

Keywords

L2 speech processinganticipation processeslexical recognitionERPstop-down processing

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 2016 , pp. 213 - 219
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This work was supported by grants from the Spanish Government (PSI2011-23033, CONSOLIDER-INGENIO2010 CSD2007-00048, ECO2011-25295, and ECO2010-09555-E), from the Catalan Government (SGR 2009-1521), from the 7th Framework Programme (AThEME 613465) and from the Grup de Recerca en Neurociència Cognitiva (GRNC) -2014SGR1210.

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