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Cognate and non-cognate lexical access in Turkish-French bilingual 5 year-old children

Mehmet-Ali Akinci

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The Turkish language has borrowed a significant number of words from Western languages and, in particular, 4974 words have been borrowed from French (Sağlam, 2007). Therefore, the Turkish lexicon includes a number of words that share a similar meaning, spelling, and/or pronunciation with related French words. These words, on the border of both languages are referred to as “cognates”. Previous studies on cognate word processing in bilingual speakers during L1 and L2 produc-tions have found a robust cognate facilitation effect in picture naming (Yan, 2014). Research-ers (Costa et al., 1999; Kroll et al., 2008) have also identified that if the cognates do not share phonology or meaning (i.e., false cognate inhibition effect), this effect may become inhibitory. These mixed findings seem to suggest that semantics, phonology and orthography may con-tribute differently to cognate word processing. This presentation aims to characterize the development of the lexicon of Turkish-French bi-lingual children with the purpose of better determining the nature of the difficulties they en-counter as well as the specificities of their functioning. In order to do this, 16 French-Turkish bilingual, 16 French and 20 Turkish monolingual 5 year-old nursery school children were asked to name pictures whose names (i) are cognates and (ii) non cognates in both lan-guages. We established a list of 74 items, including 35 cognate and 39 non-cognate items. Our results reveal high performances for the cognate word recognition task for French-Turkish bilinguals. This proves that these bilinguals implicitly knew these common words. On the one hand, this result questions the idea that a bilingual would not use words resulting from his L1 when he produces the word in his L2 and, on the other hand, supports arguments in favor of the theory according to which both languages are activated for bilinguals even when using only one language
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hal-02366433 , version 1 (15-11-2019)

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Mehmet-Ali Akinci. Cognate and non-cognate lexical access in Turkish-French bilingual 5 year-old children. 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of Limerick, Jun 2017, Limerick, Ireland. ⟨hal-02366433⟩
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