Independence of lexical access in bilingual word recognition

Scarborough, Don L.; Gerard, Linda D.; Cortese, Charles

doi:10.1016/s0022-5371(84)90519-x

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“…For example, in studies that have looked at whether a word in one language activates its translation in another language, influences of one language on the processing of the other have not been obtained, provided that the experiment has not been set up to encourage such translation (Kirsner, Brown, Abrol, Chadha, & Sharma, 1980;Kirsner, Smith, Lockhart, King, & Jain, 1984;Scarborough, Gerard, & Cortese, 1984;Watkins & Peynircioglu, 1983; see also Beauvillain & Grainger, 1987). The lexical decision task of Experiment 2 is not one that requires translation from one language into another; that is, it does not test whether the printed words SIT and CHAIR are translated into their corresponding ASL signs.…”

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Language specificity in lexical organization: Evidence from deaf signers' lexical organization of American Sign Language and English

Hanson

Feldman

1989

Memory & Cognition

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A sign decision task, in which deaf signers made a decision about the number of hands required to form a particular sign of American Sign Language (ASL), revealed significant facilitation by repetition among signs that share a base morpheme. A lexical decision task on English words revealed facilitation by repetition among words that share a base morpheme in both English and ASL, but not among those that share a base morpheme in ASL only. This outcome occurred for both deaf and hearing subjects. The results are interpreted as evidence that the morphological principles of lexical organization observed in ASL do not extend to the organization of English for skilled deaf readers.

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Language specificity in lexical organization: Evidence from deaf signers' lexical organization of American Sign Language and English

Hanson

Feldman

1989

Memory & Cognition

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“…The RP values observed for these stimulus class variations cover the entire available range. Where language is concerned, the mean RP value over eight combinations of experiment and language treatment is .05 (Cristoffanini et al, in press, Experiment 1, Spanish-English translations; Kirsner et al, 1980, English-Hindi and Hindi-English;Kirsner et al, 1984, Experiments 1 and 3, FrenchEnglish and English-French;Scarborough, Gerard, Cortese, 1984, Experiment 1, Spanish-English). Where modality is concerned, the mean RP value is 0.43, and there is little difference between transfer from speech to print, where the mean RP value is 0.42 (Clarke & Morton, 1983, Experiments 2 and 3; Jacoby & Dallas, 1981, Experiment 6;Kirsner et al, 1983, Experiments 1-8;Kirsner & Smith, 1974;Monsell, 1985, Experiment 5), and transfer from print to speech, where it is 0.48 (Jackson & Morton, 1984;Kirsner & Smith, 1974;Monsell, 1985, Experiment 6).…”

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Word and picture identification: Is representational parsimony possible?

1986

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Four experiments were conducted to evaluate the proposition that although prior exposure to a printed word facilitates identification of a corresponding picture, exposure to a picture does not facilitate subsequent word recognition (Durso & Johnson, 1979).Word identification was used, rather than naming latency, in order to avoid the range limitations in adult reading data. Word identification was facilitated by intermodal priming (prior exposure to a corresponding picture), although to a lesser extent than by intramodal (i.e., word-word) priming; the magnitude of intermodal priming was insensitive to strategy; and, as with priming from spoken to printed language, the major impact of word frequency occurred under intermodal, as distinct from intramodal, conditions. Following Scarborough, Gerard, and Cortese (1979), a fifth experiment compared word identification and episodic recognition. Intramodal performance was superior in word identification, whereas intermodal (i.e. picture-word) performance was superior in episodic recognition, a reversal which suggests that episodic recognition involves access to a distinct memory trace.

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“…Yet documentations of language specificity are numerous (e.g. Kolers, 1963Kolers, , 1968Kolders & Roediger, 1984;Marsh & Maki, 1976;Scarborough, Gerard, & Cortese, 1984;Watkins & Peynircioglu, 1983). Faced with conflicting results regarding the viability of separate-versus common-store models, several authors have argued that the inconsistencies can only be resolved by considering the specific demands of different retrieval tasks (e.g.…”

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Emotionality in free recall: Language specificity in bilingual memory

Anooshian

Hertel

1994

Cognition & Emotion

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Bilingual subjects (Spanish/English) who had acquired fluency in their second language after 8 years of age rated 18 emotional and 18 neutral words for ease of pronunciation, implied activity, or emotionality; half of each type was presented in Spanish and half in English. During a subsequent, unexpected test of free recall subjects recalled more emotional than neutral words, but only for words that had been presented in the native language. This finding applied across native-language groups and suggests that emotion provides a basis for language specificity in bilingual memory.

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Independence of lexical access in bilingual word recognition

Cited by 182 publications

References 25 publications

Language specificity in lexical organization: Evidence from deaf signers' lexical organization of American Sign Language and English

Language specificity in lexical organization: Evidence from deaf signers' lexical organization of American Sign Language and English

Word and picture identification: Is representational parsimony possible?

Emotionality in free recall: Language specificity in bilingual memory

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