Table 9.
Summary of results from stimuli comparisons.
| Accuracy | Reaction times | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (A) Cross-language comparisons | ||||||||
| Monolinguals | Spanish phonemic > English phonemic Spanish phonetic > English phonetic | Spanish phonemic = English phonemic Spanish phonetic = English phonetic | ||||||
| Early Bilinguals | ||||||||
| Late Bilinguals | ||||||||
| (B) Cross-class comparisons | ||||||||
| Monolinguals | Spanish phonemic > Spanish phonetic English phonemic = English phonetic | Spanish phonemic = Spanish phonetic English phonemic = English phonetic | ||||||
| Early bilinguals | Spanish phonemic > Spanish phonetic English phonemic ≫ English phonetic | Spanish phonemic ≪ Spanish phonetic English phonemic = English phonetic | ||||||
| Late bilinguals | Spanish phonemic > Spanish phonetic English phonemic > English phonetic | Spanish phoneme < Spanish phonetic English phonemic = English phonetic | ||||||