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Finkbeiner, Matthew; Forster, Kenneth; Nicol, Janet; Nakamura, Kumiko – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
A well-known asymmetry exists in the bilingual masked priming literature in which lexical decision is used: namely, masked primes in the dominant language (L1) facilitate decision times on targets in the less dominant language (L2), but not vice versa. In semantic categorization, on the other hand, priming is symmetrical. In Experiments 1-3 we…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Dominance, Semantics, Models
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Costa, Albert; Santesteban, Mikel – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
Five experiments are reported in which the picture naming performance of bilingual speakers in a language-switching task was explored. In Experiment 1, Spanish learners of Catalan and Korean learners of Spanish were asked to perform a switching task between their first and dominant language (L1, Spanish or Korean) and their second language (L2,…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning