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Sebastian-Galles, Nuria; Soto-Faraco, Salvador – Cognition, 1999
Compared online processing of Catalan phonemic contrasts in Spanish-dominant and Catalan-dominant Catalan-Spanish bilingual undergraduate students. Results supported hypothesis that L1 (first language) shapes the perceptual system at early stages of development in such a way that it will determine the perception of nonnative phonemic contrasts,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Development, College Students, Language Processing
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Gennari, Silvia P.; Sloman, Steven A.; Malt, Barbara C.; Fitch, W. Tecumseh – Cognition, 2002
Examined whether different lexicalization patterns of motion events in English and Spanish predicted how college student speakers performed in recognition memory and similarity judgment tasks. Found no language effect in recognition memory after either linguistic or non-linguistic encoding, nor in similarity judgments after non-linguistic…
Descriptors: College Students, Encoding (Psychology), English, Evaluative Thinking