Cognate status and dialectal variation in bilingual spoken word recognition: the role of language dominance in catalan–spanish listeners
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- dc.contributor.author Ridameya Jan, Pau
- dc.date.accessioned 2025-10-06T15:14:40Z
- dc.date.available 2025-10-06T15:14:40Z
- dc.date.issued 2025
- dc.description Treball de fi de màster en Lingüística Teòrica i Aplicada
- dc.description Director: Dr. Miquel Llompart García
- dc.description.abstract This study investigates how cognate status, dialectal variation, and language dominance influence spoken word recognition in Catalan–Spanish bilinguals. Thirty participants completed a lexical decision task in which they listened to Catalan words presented in either Central Catalan (their native dialect) or Valencian (a non-native dialect), and categorized them as real words or not. The stimuli included both cognates and non-cognates with Spanish. Reaction times were analyzed using linear mixed-effects models, with language dominance measured continuously using the Bilingual Language Profile. Results showed that dialectal variation and language dominance modulated the effect of cognate status: while no main effect of cognates emerged in Central Catalan, a significant cognate disadvantage was found in Valencian, especially among Spanish-dominant participants. These findings suggest that cross-linguistic phonological similarity can hinder rather than facilitate recognition when combined with dialectal unfamiliarity, and highlight the importance of individual linguistic profiles in bilingual lexical access. The study contributes to a more nuanced understanding of how phonological variation across dialects interacts with bilingual processing mechanisms.
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71398
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.rights Llicència CC Reconeixement-NoComercial-SenseObraDerivada 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
- dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- dc.subject.other Bilingüisme
- dc.title Cognate status and dialectal variation in bilingual spoken word recognition: the role of language dominance in catalan–spanish listeners
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis