PSYCH 3UU3 Chapter 5: CHAPTER 5 – BILINGUALISM AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION.docx

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3UU3
• Professor: Karin R Humphreys

Document Summary

Common store models: one lexicon and one semantic memory system: supported by evidence that semantic priming produces facilitation between languages, studies that minimize the role of attentional processing and participants strategies, and that maximize automatic processing suggest that equivalent words share an underlying semantic representation that can mediate priming between the two words, however, early and late learners show different patterns of cross language priming, with late learners showing less priming. Translation by second language novices is an asymmetrical process: we translate words form our first language into the second language by conceptual mediation: access the meaning in order to translate, translate from the second language into the first by word association: use direct links between items in the lexicon, evidence is that semantic factors have a profound effect on forward translation but little on backward translation, backward translation is usually faster than forward.