Word Superiority Effect in Bilingual Lexical Decision

Ihász, Petra (2023) Word Superiority Effect in Bilingual Lexical Decision. ALKALMAZOTT NYELVTUDOMÁNY, 2023 (2.klsz). pp. 97-117. ISSN 1587-1061

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Abstract

The present study is a part of a larger-scale research, in which the temporal characteristics of written word recognition of bilinguals are studied. The research goal of this lexical decision test is to gain information about the temporal characteristics of recognition at the orthographic, phonological and semantic levels of processing. The research questions concern the temporal characteristics as well as the ERP components of bilingual written word recognition. 23 Hungarian-English bilingual participants were tested in the Electroencephalogram laboratory of the University of Pannonia. All of them have C1 level English proficiency and use English at work and in their everyday lives on a daily basis. The results show different patterns for real word and non-word processing in the parietal-occipital area in the early (150-200 ms) and late (200-250 ms) phases of N170 ERP component, which is the perceptual phase of recognition. It means that word recognition starts at as early as 200-250 ms from the onset of the stimulus by the orthographic-phonological processing. However, at this level participants can only identify whether the word is real or not, but not whether it is Hungarian or English.

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