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HERO ID
3350866
Reference Type
Journal Article
Title
Mouse tracking traces the "Camrbidge Unievrsity" effects in monolingual and bilingual minds
Author(s)
Lin, YC; Lin, PY
Year
2016
Is Peer Reviewed?
Yes
Journal
Acta Psychologica
ISSN:
0001-6918
Volume
167
Page Numbers
52-62
Language
English
PMID
27107983
DOI
10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.04.001
Abstract
Previous monolingual studies have consistently suggested that there was flexibility of letter position encoding in different alphabetic writing systems. This robust letter transposition was named the "Cambridge University" effect. However, to date whether the orthographic neighborhood and cross-language script similarity would modulate the magnitude of the Cambridge University effect during the second-language word recognition in bilingual minds was unknown. We address this question using a mouse-tracking experimental paradigm to trace the internal lexical matching processes underlying the lexical access. Our linear mixed effects models and growth curve analyses revealed that a low orthographic neighborhood can trigger a large magnitude of the Cambridge University effect for monolinguals and bilinguals on their hand trajectories. We also found that different-script bilinguals (Chinese-English bilinguals) exhibited a greater Cambridge University effect than similar-script bilinguals (Spanish-English bilinguals) and English monolinguals. The findings offer compelling evidence that a human lexical match criterion of recognition system can be modified by neighborhood density and cross-language script similarity of readers.
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