Native language processing is influenced by L2-to-L1 translation ambiguity

Jouravlev, Olessia; Jared, Debra

doi:10.1080/23273798.2019.1652764

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“…All but one participant showed typical, left-lateralized language activations during the language localizer task (described below), as assessed by a lateralization index (LI) (e.g., Jouravlev & Jared, 2020). In particular, we i) calculated the number of voxels—within the boundaries of the language parcels in the left hemisphere (LH) and the right hemisphere (RH) (see Language fROI definition and response estimation below)—that are significant for the language localizer contrast at a fixed (p<0.001 uncorrected whole-brain) statistical threshold, and then ii) used the following formula “LI = (number of LH voxels - number of RH voxels) / (number of LH voxels + number of RH voxels)”.…”

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Functional characterization of the language network of polyglots and hyperpolyglots with precision fMRI

Malik-Moraleda

Jouravlev

Mineroff

et al. 2023

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A small fraction of the world population master five or more languages. How do such polyglots represent and process their different languages, and more generally, what can this unique population tell us about the language system? We identified the language network in each of 25 polyglots (including 16 hyperpolyglots with knowledge of 10+ languages) and examined its response to the native language, languages of varying proficiency, and unfamiliar languages. We found that all languages elicit a response reliably above the perceptually matched control condition in all areas of the language network. The response magnitude across languages generally scaled with comprehension level: aside from the native language, which elicited a relatively low response, languages that were more comprehensible to the participant elicited stronger responses. This pattern held for both familiar (studied) languages, and unfamiliar languages (cognate languages of high-proficiency languages elicited a stronger response than non-cognate languages). We also replicated a prior finding of weaker responses during native language processing in polyglots compared to non-polyglots. These results contribute to our understanding of how multiple languages co-exist within a single brain and provide new evidence that the language-selective network responds more strongly to stimuli from which more linguistic meaning can be extracted.

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Functional characterization of the language network of polyglots and hyperpolyglots with precision fMRI

Malik-Moraleda

Jouravlev

Mineroff

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“…There is accumulating evidence that an integrated bilingual lexicon leads to cross-language effects from L2 to L1 during word processing, especially among highly proficient bilinguals. The evidence includes translation priming effects during L1 word recognition (see Wen & Van Heuven, 2016 for a review), translation ambiguity effects (i.e., having a single vs. more than one translation across languages affects processing differently) in semantic judgement of L1 word pairs (e.g., Degani, Prior, & Tokowicz, 2011) and primed lexical decision (e.g., Jouravlev & Jared, 2019), and translation facilitation effect during L1 word production (e.g. Higby, Donnelly, Yoon, & Obler, 2019).…”

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Do bilinguals represent between-language relationships beyond the word level in their lexicon?

Zeng

Branigan

Pickering

2020

Journal of Neurolinguistics

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There is much evidence that the bilingual lexicon is well integrated at the level of individual words. In this article, we propose that it is also integrated at the multiword phrase (MWP) level. We first review the representation of single words within and across languages. Drawing upon this framework, we review current accounts of MWP representations and supporting empirical evidence. Based on the reported parallels between single words and MWPs in many aspects of representation and processing, we propose that MWPs, like single words, also have integrated representations across languages. We then sketch two accounts of how such MWPs might be represented across languages: the online activation model and the learning-based model. Both accounts show how MWPs can be linked across languages at a level corresponding to phrases by sharing meaning and syntax. Importantly, the online activation account regards the between-language MWP links as a channel for cross-language activation during MWP processing. In contrast, the learning-based model treats the links as a channel for reshaping of representation in one lexicon by the other lexicon during MWP learning. We briefly evaluate the two accounts and discuss how to test some of the assumptions of the models.

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“…Среди исследований лексики носителей унаследованного языка можно выделить работы, в которых рассматриваются изменения в их ментальном лексиконе под влиянием второго языка, например изменения представлений о синем и голубом цветах (Pavlenko et al, 2017) или о предметах русской кухни (Pavlenko, Malt, 2011), зависимость вербальной кратковременной памяти и объема словарного запаса детей от характера их двуязычия и социально-экономического статуса семьи (Meir, Armon-Lotem, 2017), влияние на развитие их словарного запаса различных факторов: хронологического возраста, пола и объема инпута (Gagarina, Klassert, 2018), перевода со второго языка (Jouravlev, Jared, 2020), разновидностей семейного общения (Czapka et al, 2021) и т. д.…”

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Lexical features of Russian speech of bilinguals in Germany and monolinguals in Russia: an experimental study

Kovrizhkina,

Moskovkin

2023

Rusistika

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The results of the comparison of lexical features of Russian speech of four groups of respondents are presented: 1) adult Russian-German bilinguals aged 35-50 who moved to Germany in the 1990-2010s; 2) their children aged 10-15 who were born in Germany or moved to Germany at an early age; 3) adult monolinguals aged 35-50 living in St. Petersburg; 4) their children aged 10-15. The relevance of the research is, on the one hand, in the importance of studying the state of the Russian language in the families of Russian compatriots living abroad, its preserving and developing, and on the other hand, in the need to supplement the existing data on the speech development of bilinguals with new facts. The research is aimed at comparing lexical features of Russian speech of two generations of bilinguals in Germany and monolinguals in Russia. The material of the research includes transcripts of picture story recordings from the book of M. Mayer “Frog, where are you?”. The methods of the research are observation, data systematization and statistical processing, comparison, quantitative and qualitative interpretation of data. The authors found out the average proportion of lexical norms violations in the stories of informants and among them the proportion of word substitutions, word omissions and superfluous words insertion. The types of word substitutions, their percentage, and their reasons were determined. The similarity of lexical norms violations in the speech of children (bilingual and monolingual), conditioned by general laws of speech development, was revealed. The conclusion is made about the relatively stable Russia lexical system in the diaspora, at least in the two groups of Russian-German bilinguals studied, and about its similarity with the lexical system of monolinguals. Some parts of the lexical system of the Russian language of bilingual children aged 10-15 years undergo changes, but these changes do not violate its integrity.

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Native language processing is influenced by L2-to-L1 translation ambiguity

Cited by 7 publications

References 70 publications

Functional characterization of the language network of polyglots and hyperpolyglots with precision fMRI

Functional characterization of the language network of polyglots and hyperpolyglots with precision fMRI

Do bilinguals represent between-language relationships beyond the word level in their lexicon?

Lexical features of Russian speech of bilinguals in Germany and monolinguals in Russia: an experimental study

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