Peer Review #1 of "Towards a distributed connectionist account of cognates and interlingual homographs: evidence from semantic relatedness tasks (v0.1)"
Abstract:Background. Current models of how bilinguals process cognates (e.g. "wolf", which has the same meaning in Dutch and English) and interlingual homographs (e.g. "angel", meaning "insect's sting" in Dutch) are based primarily on data from lexical decision tasks. A major drawback of such tasks is that it is difficult-if not impossible-to separate processes that occur during decision making (e.g. response competition) from processes that take place in the lexicon (e.g. lateral inhibition). Instead, we conducted two… Show more
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