Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states and cross-linguistic transfer

Katy Borodkin; Miriam Faust

doi:10.1017/s136672891300031x

Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states and cross-linguistic transfer

Katy Borodkin
, Miriam Faust

Department of Psychology

Bar-Ilan University

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Abstract

This study examined cross-linguistic transfer in oral language skills in a sample of 50 native Hebrew speakers who learned English as a second language. The ability to retrieve phonological forms of words in naming, as manifested by the tendency to experience tip-of-the-tongue states, was correlated across languages. We also found within and across language correlations between this ability and grammatical accuracy, lexical diversity, and syntactic complexity in second language narratives. These findings are consistent with the transfer across languages in oral language skills and provide insights into the processes linking phonological and higher level encoding in production of connected speech.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	914-923
Number of pages	10
Journal	Bilingualism
Volume	16
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/s136672891300031x
State	Published - Oct 2013

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This research was supported in part by grant number 602/06 of the Israel Science Foundation. We wish to thank the three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. We also wish to thank the students who participated in the study.

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This research was supported in part by grant number 602/06 of the Israel Science Foundation. We wish to thank the three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. We also wish to thank the students who participated in the study.

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Israel Science Foundation

Keywords

cross-linguistic transfer
naming
oral language production
second language acquisition
tip-of-the-tongue states

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