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Scarborough, Don L.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
Discusses research which shows that bilinguals in a word recognition task are able to process the words of a language in a language-specific manner without any influence of their knowledge of the surface or conceptual represenations of words in the other language. (EKN)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Concept Formation, English, Language Processing
Potter, Mary C.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
Considers two hypotheses about the association between equivalent words in a bilingual's two languages: (1) word association, which hypothesizes a direct association between words in the two languages and (2) concept mediation, which proposes the only connection between the two languages is via an underlying conceptual system. Reports on…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cantonese, Concept Formation, English
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
