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A cross-linguistic comparison of verbal fluency tests.

Mónica Rosselli1, Alfredo Ardila, Judy Salvatierra

  • 1Florida Atlantic University, College of Liberal Arts, Division of Psychology, 2912 College Avenue, Davie, Florida 33314, USA.

The International Journal of Neuroscience
|September 28, 2002
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Bilinguals showed fewer semantic fluency words but similar phonemic fluency compared to monolinguals. Language background impacts word retrieval strategies.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Oral fluency is a key measure of language production.
  • Understanding how bilinguals and monolinguals retrieve words is crucial for psycholinguistics.
  • Crosslinguistic influences on verbal fluency are not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare oral fluency strategies in Spanish-English bilinguals and monolinguals.
  • To investigate the effect of phonemic (alphabetical) versus semantic cues on word retrieval.
  • To analyze the use of grammatical versus content words and the relation between productivity and semantic organization.

Main Methods:

  • Eighty-two older adults (monolinguals and bilinguals) participated.
  • Oral verbal fluency was assessed using phonemic (F, A, S) and semantic (animals) category tasks.

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  • Word production, grammatical word use, and semantic associations were analyzed.

    • Main Results:

    • English and Spanish monolinguals performed similarly on phonemic tasks.
    • Bilinguals produced fewer words than English monolinguals in semantic tasks, but not phonemic tasks.
    • English monolinguals produced more grammatical words than Spanish monolinguals; bilinguals produced more grammatical words in English.

    Conclusions:

    • Bilinguals' semantic fluency is affected by language background, while phonemic fluency remains comparable.
    • Crosslinguistic differences influence word recall strategies, particularly for grammatical words.
    • Semantic organization strategies appear consistent across languages and proficiency levels.