PSYC 341 Study Guide - Lexical Decision Task, Factorial Experiment, Parsing

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 341
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

Notes on the influence of sentence context constraint on cognate effects in lexical decision and translation by janet g. van hell: cross-language activation, cognate effect and linguistic context. In linguistic, two main theoretical views are taking place on how bilinguals activate and process words in their two languages: the language selective activation and the language- nonselective activation. The language selective activation theory think that bilingual are activating words from the context appropriate language when language nonselective theory think that bilingual are activating words from both languages. Most of studies have shown that words are activated in parallel and so evidence for language nonselective activation is predominant. However, most of those studies have been done in isolation, without a linguistic context (no external help to discover the word/ picture). The research in this paper assumed that bilingual are activating both language at the same time, a language nonselective activation process. For that, janet g. van hell used cognate and non-cognate words.