On the facilitatory effects of cognate words in bilingual speech production

There is a growing body of evidence showing that a word’s cognate status is an important dimension affecting the naming performance of bilingual speakers. In a recent article, Kohnert (2004) extended this observation to the naming performance of an aphasic bilingual (DJ). DJ named pictures with cogn...

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Published in:Brain and language 2005-07, Vol.94 (1), p.94-103
Main Authors: Costa, Albert, Santesteban, Mikel, Caño, Agnès
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Aphasia
Aphasia - physiopathology
Bilingualism
Biological and medical sciences
Cognates
Humans
Language Acquisition
Linguistics
Medical sciences
Multilingualism
Organic mental disorders. Neuropsychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Speech
Speech - physiology
Speech production
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Summary:There is a growing body of evidence showing that a word’s cognate status is an important dimension affecting the naming performance of bilingual speakers. In a recent article, Kohnert (2004) extended this observation to the naming performance of an aphasic bilingual (DJ). DJ named pictures with cognate names more accurately than pictures with non-cognate names. Furthermore, having named the pictures in Spanish helped the subsequent retrieval (with a delay of one week between the two tests) of the same pictures’ names in English, but only for pictures with cognate names. That is, there was a language transfer but only for those translation words that were phonologically similar. In this article we first evaluate the conclusions drawn from these results by Kohnert, and second we discuss the theoretical implications of the facilitatory effects of cognate words for models of speech production in bilingual speakers.
ISSN:0093-934X
1090-2155
DOI:10.1016/j.bandl.2004.12.002