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Boada, Roger; Sanchez-Casas, Rosa; Gavilan, Jose M.; Garcia-Albea, Jose E.; Tokowicz, Natasha – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
When participants are asked to translate an ambiguous word, they are slower and less accurate than in the case of single-translation words (e.g., Laxen & Lavour, 2010; Tokowicz & Kroll, 2007). We report an experiment to further examine this multiple-translation effect by investigating the influence of variables shown to be relevant in bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Dominance, Translation, Ambiguity (Semantics)
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Ferre, Pilar; Sanchez-Casas, Rosa; Fraga, Isabel – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
Emotional words are better remembered than neutral words in the first language. Ferre, Garcia, Fraga, Sanchez-Casas and Molero (2010) found this emotional effect also for second language words by using an encoding task focused on emotionality. The aim of the present study was to test whether the same effect can also be observed with encoding tasks…
Descriptors: Memory, Vocabulary, Emotional Response, Native Language
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Casey, Shannon; Emmorey, Karen; Larrabee, Heather – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
Given that the linguistic articulators for sign language are also used to produce co-speech gesture, we examined whether one year of academic instruction in American Sign Language (ASL) impacts the rate and nature of gestures produced when speaking English. A survey study revealed that 75% of ASL learners (N = 95), but only 14% of Romance language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, American Sign Language, Cartoons, Second Language Learning