Publications by authors named "Jessie Wanner-Kawahara"
Previous masked translation priming studies, especially those with different-script bilinguals, have shown that cognates provide more priming than noncognates, a difference attributed to cognates' phonological similarity. In our experiments employing a word naming task, we examined this issue for Chinese-Japanese bilinguals in a slightly different way, using same-script cognates as primes and targets. In Experiment 1, significant cognate priming effects were observed.
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- Native English readers experience faster recognition of present-tense targets after seeing past-tense verb primes, suggesting strong morphological connections in their language processing.
- In contrast, it's uncertain if similar connections exist in non-native English speakers, prompting research on Japanese-English bilinguals to investigate this.
- The study found that past-tense verb primes aided target recognition beyond orthographic similarities, indicating that bilinguals can form morphological links akin to native speakers as their proficiency improves, while also experiencing reduced reliance on orthographic cues.