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Altenberg, Evelyn P.; Cairns, Helen Smith – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1983
A study of linguistic judgment tasks and lexical decision tasks among English-German bilinguals supports the hypotheses that bilinguals have knowledge of two sets of phonotactic constraints, and that both sets of constraints are simultaneously available to the individual during language processing. (MSE)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), English, German
Watkins, Michael J.; Peynircioglu, Zehra F. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1983
Two experiments are reported testing bilinguals' recall of words presented in one of two languages and under several conditions. Performance was best when the individuals had seen the word itself, less good when they had seen the other language's equivalent, and equally or least good when they had seen neither. (MSE)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cloze Procedure, Code Switching (Language), Context Clues