PSYC 341 Study Guide - Constraint Algorithm, Lexical Decision Task, Simultaneous Bilingualism
22 Mar 2014
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The influence of sentence context constraint on cognate effects in lexical. Main question in bilingual research: how bilinguals activate and process words in their two languages, and how do they control their two language systems: two theories: Language-selective activation view bilinguals activate only contextually relevant word candidates from the language. Language-nonselective activation words from both languages are activated in response to incoming information (nonselected information): more studies point toward the activation of words in bilingual memory as operating in a language-nonselective way. Most studies give participants pictures and are asked to name what is depicted: study: dijkstra, van jaarsveld & ten brinke (1998) cognate effect. Lexical tasks using a set of identical cognates (same word and meaning in both languages), a set of identical interlexical homographs (words with an identical spelling, but different meaning in the two languages) and matched controls e. g. noncognates. Results: lexical decision times on the cognates shorter than those on the matched controls.
