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Predicting upcoming information in native-language and non-native-language auditory word recognition*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2016

ASTER DIJKGRAAF ,
ROBERT J. HARTSUIKER  and
WOUTER DUYCK
ASTER DIJKGRAAF*
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University
ROBERT J. HARTSUIKER
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University
WOUTER DUYCK
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University
*
Address for correspondence: A. Dijkgraaf, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgiumaster.dijkgraaf@ugent.be
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Abstract

Monolingual listeners continuously predict upcoming information. Here, we tested whether predictive language processing occurs to the same extent when bilinguals listen to their native language vs. a non-native language. Additionally, we tested whether bilinguals use prediction to the same extent as monolinguals. Dutch–English bilinguals and English monolinguals listened to constraining and neutral sentences in Dutch (bilinguals only) and in English, and viewed target and distractor pictures on a display while their eye movements were measured. There was a bias of fixations towards the target object in the constraining condition, relative to the neutral condition, before information from the target word could affect fixations. This prediction effect occurred to the same extent in native processing by bilinguals and monolinguals, but also in non-native processing. This indicates that unbalanced, proficient bilinguals can quickly use semantic information during listening to predict upcoming referents to the same extent in both of their languages.

Keywords

bilingualismpredictionspeech perceptionvisual world paradigm
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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 20 , Issue 5 , November 2017 , pp. 917 - 930
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Footnotes

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This research was supported by a Concerted Research Action (GOA) from the Special Research Fund, Ghent University.

We thank Denis Drieghe and the Centre for Vision and Cognition (Southampton University) for making it possible for us to run a control study with monolinguals.

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