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The Role of Language Switching during Cross-Talk between Bilingual Language Control and Domain-General Conflict Monitoring
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Jiao, Lu; Timmer, Kalinka; Liu, Cong; Chen, Baoguo – Cognitive Science, 2022
The relationship between bilingual language control and executive control is debated. The present study investigated the effect of short-term language switching in a comprehension task on executive control performance in unbalanced bilinguals. Participants were required to perform a context task and an executive control task (i.e., flanker task)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Executive Function, Task Analysis
The Acquisition of Contrastive Focus during Online Sentence-Comprehension by Children Learning Mandarin Chinese
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Tang, Ping; Yuen, Ivan; Demuth, Katherine; Rattanasone, Nan Xu – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Contrastive focus, conveyed by prosodic cues, marks important information. Studies have shown that 6-year-olds learning English and Japanese can use contrastive focus during online sentence comprehension: focus used in a "contrastive context" facilitates the identification of a target referent (speeding up processing), whereas focus used…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Suprasegmentals, Intonation, Prediction
How Yellow Is Your Banana? Toddlers' Language-Mediated Visual Search in Referent-Present Tasks
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Mani, Nivedita; Johnson, Elizabeth; McQueen, James M.; Huettig, Falk – Developmental Psychology, 2013
What is the relative salience of different aspects of word meaning in the developing lexicon? The current study examines the time-course of retrieval of semantic and color knowledge associated with words during toddler word recognition: At what point do toddlers orient toward an image of a yellow cup upon hearing color-matching words such as…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Semantics, Color, Language Processing
Spoken Word Processing Creates a Lexical Bottleneck
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Cleland, Alexandra A.; Tamminen, Jakke; Quinlan, Philip T.; Gaskell, M. Gareth – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
We report 3 experiments that examined whether presentation of a spoken word creates an attentional bottleneck associated with lexical processing in the absence of a response to that word. A spoken word and a visual stimulus were presented in quick succession, but only the visual stimulus demanded a response. Response times to the visual stimulus…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Auditory Perception, Visual Perception, Language Processing
Processing of Contrastiveness by Heritage Russian Bilinguals
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Sekerina, Irina A.; Trueswell, John C. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
Two eye-tracking experiments in the Visual World paradigm compared how monolingual Russian (Experiment 1) and heritage Russian-English bilingual (Experiment 2) listeners process contrastiveness online in Russian. Materials were color adjective-noun phrases embedded into the split-constituent construction Krasnuju polozite zvezdovku..."Red put…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Nouns, Word Recognition, Monolingualism
On Processing Chinese Ideographs and English Words: Some Implications from Stroop-Test Results.
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Biederman, Irving; Tsao, Yao-Chung – Cognitive Psychology, 1979
When Chinese adults tried to name the color of characters which represented conflicting color words, they showed greater interference than did English speaking readers of the same task in English. This effect cannot be attributed to bilingualism. There may be fundamental differences in the perceptual demands of reading Chinese and English.…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Bilingualism, Cerebral Dominance, Chinese