Lexical and conceptual representation in beginning and proficient bilinguals

Potter, Mary C.; So, Kwok-Fai; Eckardt, Barbara Von; Feldman, Laurie Beth

doi:10.1016/s0022-5371(84)90489-4

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“…The assumption that word retrieval is more difficult in the nondominant language is supported by previous research showing slower response times and higher error rates for naming pictures in the nondominant language (e.g., Chen, 1990;Potter et al, 1984;Sholl et al, 1995). There is a corresponding tendency for slower responses in translating to the nondominant language (e.g., Kroll & Stewart, 1994;Miller & Kroll, 2002;Potter et al, 1984;Sholl et al, 1995). The prediction that word-retrieval processes will exhibit more priming in the nondominant language is also supported by previous research showing that both priming from picture naming to translation (Sholl et al, 1995) and priming from translation to picture naming (Francis, 1998) were stronger in the nondominant language.…”

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“…Experiment 2 replicated one pattern previously used as evidence for concept-mediated naming and translation when responding in the nondominant language. Translation to the nondominant language took a little longer (about 70 ms, depending on whether prime-phase or test-phase new items were compared) than naming pictures in the nondominant language (replicating effects observed by Chen, 1990;Chen & Leung, 1989;Potter et al, 1984). (For detailed explanations of the logic behind the use of response time patterns as evidence for concept and word mediation, see Potter et al, 1984;Snodgrass, 1993.…”

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“…Translation to the nondominant language took a little longer (about 70 ms, depending on whether prime-phase or test-phase new items were compared) than naming pictures in the nondominant language (replicating effects observed by Chen, 1990;Chen & Leung, 1989;Potter et al, 1984). (For detailed explanations of the logic behind the use of response time patterns as evidence for concept and word mediation, see Potter et al, 1984;Snodgrass, 1993. ) Arguably the strongest evidence in the literature regarding the concept-mediated or word-mediated nature of translation comes from the Sholl et al (1995) study of repetition priming in late English-Spanish bilinguals living in a primarily English-speaking environment.…”

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Repetition Priming in Picture Naming and Translation Depends on Shared Processes and Their Difficulty: Evidence From Spanish-English Bilinguals.

Francis¹,

Augustini²,

Sáenz³

2003

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Two experiments with highly fluent Spanish-English bilinguals examined repetition priming of picture identification and word retrieval in picture naming. In Experiment 1, between-language priming of picture naming was symmetric, but within-language priming was stronger in the nondominant language. In Experiment 2, priming between picture naming and translation was symmetric within both the dominant language and the nondominant language, but priming was stronger in the nondominant language. A mathematical model required only 3 process parameters to explain the pattern of priming across 8 conditions. These results indicate that shared processes are the basis of priming, that difficulty influences priming only at the process level, and that translation in both directions is concept mediated in fluent bilinguals.

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Repetition Priming in Picture Naming and Translation Depends on Shared Processes and Their Difficulty: Evidence From Spanish-English Bilinguals.

Francis¹,

Augustini²,

Sáenz³

2003

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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“…The concept-mediation model [25] (Fig. 1a), proposes that both the first (L1) and the second-language lexica directly access concepts.…”

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Impairment and Rehabilitation in Bilingual Aphasia: A SOM-Based Model

Grasemann

Sandberg

Kıran

et al. 2011

Advances in Self-Organizing Maps

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Abstract. Bilingual aphasia is of increasing interest because a large and growing proportion of the worlds population is bilingual. Current clinical research on this topic cannot provide specific recommendations on which language treatment should focus in a bilingual aphasic individual and to what extent cross-language transfer occurs during or after rehabilitation. This paper describes a SOM-based model of the bilingual lexicon, and reports on simulations of impairment and rehabilitation in bilingual aphasia. The goal is to create computational methods that can complement clinical research in developing a better understanding of mechanisms underlying recovery, and that could be used in the future to predict the most beneficial treatment for individual patients.

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“…1 Yet, highly proficient bilinguals rarely exhibit signs of lexical intrusions from their other language (Poulisse, 1997;Poulisse & Bon-1 In less proficient bilinguals, it is reasonable to assume that the connections between the semantic system and the lexical system of the nondominant language (L2) are too weak for lexical representations to become activated highly enough to compete with their dominant language (L1) counterparts (cf. Kroll & Stewart, 1994;Potter, So, Von Eckardt, & Feldman, 1984). In highly proficient bilinguals, on the other hand, it is widely assumed that the semantic system activates lexical nodes in both languages to an equal degree.…”

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Lexical selection in bilingual speech production does not involve language suppression.

Finkbeiner¹,

Almeida²,

Janssen³

et al. 2006

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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The "hard problem" in bilingual lexical access arises when translation-equivalent lexical representations are activated to roughly equal levels and, thus, compete equally for lexical selection. The language suppression hypothesis (D. W. Green, 1998) solves this hard problem through the suppression of lexical representations in the nontarget language. Following from this proposal is the prediction that lexical selection should take longer on a language switch trial because the to-be-selected representation was just suppressed on the previous trial. Inconsistent with this prediction, participants took no longer to name pictures in their dominant language on language switch trials than they did on nonswitch trials. These findings indicate that nontarget lexical representations are not suppressed. The authors suggest that these results undermine the viability of the language suppression hypothesis as a possible solution to the hard problem in bilingual lexical access.

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Lexical and conceptual representation in beginning and proficient bilinguals

Cited by 500 publications

References 25 publications

Repetition Priming in Picture Naming and Translation Depends on Shared Processes and Their Difficulty: Evidence From Spanish-English Bilinguals.

Repetition Priming in Picture Naming and Translation Depends on Shared Processes and Their Difficulty: Evidence From Spanish-English Bilinguals.

Impairment and Rehabilitation in Bilingual Aphasia: A SOM-Based Model

Lexical selection in bilingual speech production does not involve language suppression.

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