The time course of cross-language activation in deaf ASL–English bilinguals
| Autor: | Jill P. Morford, Erin Wilkinson, Judith F. Kroll, Corrine Occhino-Kehoe, Pilar Piñar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Linguistics and Language
05 social sciences Sign language Article 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Linguistics Education Task (project management) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Second language Semantic similarity Word recognition Time course otorhinolaryngologic diseases 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Neuroscience of multilingualism 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 20:337-350 |
| ISSN: | 1469-1841 1366-7289 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s136672891500067x |
| Popis: | What is the time course of cross-language activation in deaf sign–print bilinguals? Prior studies demonstrating cross-language activation in deaf bilinguals used paradigms that would allow strategic or conscious translation. This study investigates whether cross-language activation can be eliminated by reducing the time available for lexical processing. Deaf ASL–English bilinguals and hearing English monolinguals viewed pairs of English words and judged their semantic similarity. Half of the stimuli had phonologically related translations in ASL, but participants saw only English words. We replicated prior findings of cross-language activation despite the introduction of a much faster rate of presentation. Further, the deaf bilinguals were as fast or faster than hearing monolinguals despite the fact that the task was in their second language. The results allow us to rule out the possibility that deaf ASL–English bilinguals only activate ASL phonological forms when given ample time for strategic or conscious translation across their two languages. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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