Changes in the Sensitivity to Language-Specific Orthographic Patterns With Age
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2020Autor
Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni
Borragán, María
de Bruin, Angela
Casaponsa, Aina
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Duñabeitia JA, Borragán M, de Bruin A and Casaponsa A (2020) Changes in the Sensitivity to Language-Specific Orthographic Patterns With Age. Front. Psychol. 11:1691. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01691
Resumen
How do bilingual readers of languages that have similar scripts identify a language
switch? Recent behavioral and electroencephalographic results suggest that they rely
on orthotactic cues to recognize the language of the words they read in ambiguous
contexts. Previous research has shown that marked words with language-specific letter
sequences (i.e., letter sequences that are illegal in one of the two languages) are
recognized more easily and faster than unmarked words. The aim of this study was
to investigate sensitivity to markedness throughout childhood and early adulthood by
using a speeded language decision task with words and pseudowords. A large group
of Spanish-Basque bilinguals of different ages (children, preteenagers, teenagers and
adults) was tested. Results showed a markedness effect in the second language across
all age groups that changed with age. However, sensitivity to markedness in the native
language was negligible. We conclude that sensitivity to orthotactics does not follow
parallel developmental trend in the first and second language.