1. Influence of native-language phonology
How are words stored?
Abstract phonological representation
Details omitted, only contrastive info stored
Exemplar
Details retained

2. Influence of native-language phonology
How are words recognized?
Abstract phonological representation
Details stripped and then compared with other abstract entries in the mental lexicon

3. Influence of native-language phonology
How are words recognized?
Abstract phonological representation
Details stripped and then compared with other abstract entries in the mental lexicon
Examplar model
Concrete, detailed word compared to other exemplar store with details

4. Influence of native-language phonology
Let's look at how bilinguals process language

5. Influence of native-language phonology
Let's look at how bilinguals process language
Catalan distinguishes [e] and [ɛ]
[netə] granddaughter
[nɛtə] clean

6. Influence of native-language phonology
Let's look at how bilinguals process language
Catalan distinguishes [e] and [ɛ]
[netə] granddaughter
[nɛtə] clean
In Spanish [e] and [ɛ] are allophones of the same phoneme

7. Influence of native-language phonology
Let's look at how bilinguals process language
Catalan distinguishes [o] and [ɔ]
[donə] he gives
[dɔnə] lady
In Spanish [o] and [ɔ] are allophones of the same phoneme

8. Influence of native-language phonology
Let's look at how bilinguals process language
Catalan distinguishes [s] and [z]
[kazə] house
[kasə] he hunts
In Spanish [s] and [z] are allophones of the same phoneme

9. Influence of native-language phonology
They compare two groups of speakers'
Spanish/Catalan bilinguals who are Catalan dominant
Spanish/Catalan bilinguals who are Spanish dominant

10. Influence of native-language phonology
Lexical decision task done in Catalan
Is the word you heard real or not?

11. Influence of native-language phonology
Lexical decision task done in Catalan
Is the word you heard real or not?
If you hear the same word a second time RT goes down
This is evidence that you heard the word previously

12. Influence of native-language phonology
Lexical decision task done in Catalan
Is the word you heard real or not?
If you hear the same word a second time RT goes down
This is evidence that you heard the word previously
If a Catalan speaker heard [nɛtə] and later on heard [nɛtə] again, there would be a priming effect

13. Influence of native-language phonology
Lexical decision task done in Catalan
Is the word you heard real or not?
If you hear the same word a second time RT goes down
This is evidence that you heard the word previously
If a Catalan speaker heard [nɛtə] and later on heard [nɛtə] again, there would be a priming effect
If a Catalan speaker heard [nɛtə] and later on heard [netə], there would not be a priming effect

14. Influence of native-language phonology
Lexical decision task done in Catalan
If a monolingual Spanish speaker heard [netə] and later on heard [netə], there would be a priming effect

15. Influence of native-language phonology
Lexical decision task done in Catalan
If a monolingual Spanish speaker heard [netə] and later on heard [netə], there would be a priming effect
If a monolingual Spanish speaker heard [nɛtə] and later on heard [netə], would there be a priming effect because the words are phonologically identical?

16. Influence of native-language phonology
Lexical decision task done in Catalan
But the participants where bilingual so that would be different, right?

17. Influence of native-language phonology
Diamonds: priming effect for repeated words
Same for Catalan and Spanish dominant

18. Influence of native-language phonology
Diamonds: priming effect for repeated words
Same for Catalan and Spanish dominant
Boxes: priming effect for minimal pairs ([netə,netə])

19. Influence of native-language phonology
Catalan dominants have no priming because [netə,netə] are minimal pairs

20. Influence of native-language phonology
Catalan dominants have no priming because [nɛtə,netə] are minimal pairs
Spanish dominant process [netə,netə] as being the same word, even though they speak Catalan

21. Influence of native-language phonology
If word recognition is exemplar (detailed) the Spanish speakers should have correctly matched [nɛtə,netə]

22. Influence of native-language phonology
If word recognition is exemplar (detailed) the Spanish speakers should have correctly matched [nɛtə,netə]
If word recognition is abstract, Spanish speakers would use their native phonology, strip irrelevant differences such [ɛ,e], and perceive [nɛtə,netə] to be identical

23. Influence of native-language phonology
If word recognition is exemplar (detailed) the Spanish speakers should have correctly matched [nɛtə,netə]
If word recognition is abstract, Spanish speakers would use their native phonology, strip irrelevant differences such [ɛ,e], and perceive [nɛtə,netə] to be identical
This is evidence for abstract phonological storage