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Haitian Creole speakers reading and listening to Brazilian Portuguese words [recursos eletrônico] : is there a cognate facilitation effect? / Pietra Cassol Pigatti ; orientadora, Mailce Borges Mota ; coorientador, Kenneth Pugh
Data de publicação
2024
Descrição física
339 p. : il.
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Disponível somente em versão on-line.
Tese (doutorado) – Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, Florianópolis, 2024.
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Haitian Creole speakers reading and listening to Brazilian Portuguese words [recursos eletrônico] : is there a cognate facilitation effect? / Pietra Cassol Pigatti ; orientadora, Mailce Borges Mota ; coorientador, Kenneth Pugh
Data de publicação
2024
Descrição física
339 p. : il.
Nota
Disponível somente em versão on-line.
Tese (doutorado) – Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, Florianópolis, 2024.
Inclui referências.
Abstract: The general objective of this dissertation was to investigate the effects of cross-linguistic interaction of HC and BP, of BP phonological awareness and of reading habits in BP on language processing in BP as a second language by native speakers of HC. In order to do so, two separate studies were carried out: Study 1 had children and teenagers enrolled in public schools as participants and investigated the cognate effect across HC and BP and the influence of phonological awareness in BP, and Study 2 had adults as participants and investigated the cognate effect across HC and BP and the influence of reading habits in BP. In Study 1, 48 participants completed five tasks and one questionnaire: a visual lexical decision (LD) task in BP, an auditory LD task in BP, a BP phonological awareness test, a letter identification test in BP, a HC receptive vocabulary test, and a language history questionnaire. The LD tasks consisted of unique 60 cognate words across HC and BP, 60 noncognate, and 120 pseudowords. Word presentation was randomized. In both studies, statistical analyses were ran in R, and inferential analyses used mixed-effect linear models. In Study 1, models showed no significant effect of cognate words during either spoken or written word recognition on either RTs or accuracy. Further analyses indicated that age and word length do not seem to have influenced the null result. There was a significant effect of phonological awareness on accuracy rates in the written LD task, which was discussed in relation to evidence of a mutual relationship between phonological awareness, learning to read and developing reading and writing skills. In Study 2, 35 participants completed four tasks and two questionnaires: a visual LD task in BP, a visual self-paced sentence comprehension (SC) task in BP, a self-paced SC task in BP, a HC receptive vocabulary test, a reading habits in BP questionnaire, and a language history questionnaire. The SC tasks were composed of unique 40 sentences containing a cognate word across HC and BP as the fifth word and of 40 containing a noncognate word as the fifth word. After every fixed 5 sentence block, a comprehension question about the last sentence was visually presented. Block presentation was randomized. In Study 2, models showed no significant effect of cognate words during either spoken or written word recognition in isolation or embedded in sentences on either RTs or accuracy. There was no significant effect from reading habits in any of the other models. Further analyses indicated that word length does not seem to have influenced this null result. The absence of any cognate effect in both studies was discussed in relation to studies investigating cross-linguistic influences. A speculative explanation is proposed. It considers aspects from the Lexical Quality Hypothesis, the Cross-language Activation account, and the Learning Account, as well as environmental influences on language development, such as socioeconomic status, and diversity of linguistic input.