Sentence context effects in bilingual word recognition: cognate processing, sentence language, and semantic constraint

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2015Number of pages
17 p.
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Bilingualism. Language and Cognition, 18, 4, (2015), pp. 597-613ISSN
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18 november 2014
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Journal title
Bilingualism. Language and Cognition
Volume
vol. 18
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iss. 4
Languages used
English (eng)
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p. 597
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p. 613
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Cognitive and developmental aspects of Multilingualism; Language in Mind; Learning and PlasticityAbstract
In two lexical decision experiments, we investigated how sentence language affects the bilingual's recognition of target words from the same or a different language. Dutch-English bilinguals read Dutch (L1) or English (L2) sentences, presented word by word, followed by English (Experiment 1) or Dutch (Experiment 2) target words. Targets were Dutch-English cognates or non-cognates in isolation or preceded by sentences providing a high or a low semantic constraint. English cognates were facilitated irrespective of whether they were preceded by high or low constraining English sentences (no language switch) or Dutch sentences (switch). For Dutch cognates, inhibition effects arose in low constraining sentences (irrespective of Dutch or English) and in English (switch) sentences (irrespective of semantic constraint). Thus, under mixed language conditions, sentence constraint modulates target word processing but does not always completely eliminate cross-linguistic effects. The results are interpreted in a BIA+ model that extends monolingual views on sentence comprehension.
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