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Jin Li, Hope Kean, Evelina Fedorenko, Zeynep Saygin
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Eva Commissaire
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(2022)
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Marie-Ange Lecerf, Severine Casalis, Eva Commissaire
Summary: In the past ten years, research on bilingual visual word recognition has led to a new line of study focusing on a sublexical orthographic variable called orthographic markedness. This variable is derived from comparing the two orthotactic distributions known by bilingual readers. Orthographic markers have been shown to speed up language decisions and also modulate the nonselectivity of language during lexical access. This review summarizes the available literature on orthographic markedness and its effects on language membership detection and lexical access. The review also discusses theoretical extensions to bilingual interactive activation models and proposes future research directions.
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FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
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Agnieszka Debska, Marta Wojcik, Katarzyna Chyl, Gabriela Dzigiel-Fivet, Katarzyna Jednorog
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Clare Lally, Kathleen Rastle
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(2023)
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Avital Deutsch, Hadas Velan, Yiska Merzbach, Tamar Michaly
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