TY - JOUR
T1 - Carpet or cárcel
T2 - The effect of age of acquisition and language mode on bilingual lexical access
AU - Canseco-Gonzalez, Enriqueta
AU - Brehm, Laurel
AU - Brick, Cameron A.
AU - Brown-Schmidt, Sarah
AU - Fischer, Kara
AU - Wagner, Katie
N1 - Funding Information:
Correspondence should be addressed to Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., Portland, OR 97202, USA. E-mail: ecanseco@reed.edu The authors would like to thank Viorica Marian for helpful advice during the initial stages of the study. This research was supported by a NSF grant (MCAA award 0345950 to E. Canseco-Gonzalez) and by the Sherman-Fairchild research fund. Thanks as well to the Whiteley Center at the University of Washington for support with grant proposal preparation.
PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - Lexical access was examined in English-Spanish bilinguals by monitoring eye fixations on target and lexical competitors as participants followed spoken instructions in English to click on one of the objects presented on a computer (e.g., 'Click on the beans'). Within-language lexical competitors had a phoneme onset in English that was shared with the target (e.g., 'beetle'). Between-language lexical competitors had a phoneme onset in Spanish that was shared with the target ('bigote', 'mustache' in English). Participant groups varied in their age-of-acquisition of English and Spanish, and were examined in one of three language modes (Grosjean, 1998, 2001). A strong within language (English) lexical competition (or cohort effect) was modulated by language mode and age of second language acquisition. A weaker between-language (Spanish) cohort effect was influenced primarily by the age-of-acquisition of Spanish. These results highlight the role of age-of acquisition and mode in language processing. They are discussed in comparison to previous studies addressing the role of these two variables and in terms of existing models of bilingual word recognition.
AB - Lexical access was examined in English-Spanish bilinguals by monitoring eye fixations on target and lexical competitors as participants followed spoken instructions in English to click on one of the objects presented on a computer (e.g., 'Click on the beans'). Within-language lexical competitors had a phoneme onset in English that was shared with the target (e.g., 'beetle'). Between-language lexical competitors had a phoneme onset in Spanish that was shared with the target ('bigote', 'mustache' in English). Participant groups varied in their age-of-acquisition of English and Spanish, and were examined in one of three language modes (Grosjean, 1998, 2001). A strong within language (English) lexical competition (or cohort effect) was modulated by language mode and age of second language acquisition. A weaker between-language (Spanish) cohort effect was influenced primarily by the age-of-acquisition of Spanish. These results highlight the role of age-of acquisition and mode in language processing. They are discussed in comparison to previous studies addressing the role of these two variables and in terms of existing models of bilingual word recognition.
KW - Age of 2nd language acquisition
KW - Bilingual lexical access
KW - Bilingual word recognition
KW - Interlingual competition
KW - Language mode
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U2 - 10.1080/01690960903474912
DO - 10.1080/01690960903474912
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77952530912
SN - 0169-0965
VL - 25
SP - 669
EP - 705
JO - Language and Cognitive Processes
JF - Language and Cognitive Processes
IS - 5
ER -