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Cognate status and cross-script translation priming.

Madeleine Voga1, Jonathan Grainger

  • 1Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Université de Provence, Marseille, France.

Memory & Cognition
|October 4, 2007
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Greek-French bilinguals showed that translation equivalents, especially cognates, facilitate word recognition. Morphological priming effects emerged later, suggesting distinct processing pathways in bilingual memory.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Bilingualism Research

Background:

  • Bilinguals access and process words across languages.
  • The representation and interaction of translation equivalents in bilingual memory are not fully understood.
  • Cognates, sharing form and meaning across languages, may offer unique insights.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the processing of translation equivalents in Greek-French bilinguals.
  • To compare priming effects of cognates, morphological relatives, and translation equivalents.
  • To explore the role of phonological overlap and prime exposure duration.

Main Methods:

  • Three masked priming experiments using Greek primes and French targets.
  • Manipulation of prime types: cognates, morphological relations, translation equivalents.

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  • Varying prime exposure durations (50ms, 66ms) and comparison conditions (phonologically related, unrelated).

    • Main Results:

    • Cognates showed facilitatory priming, especially at shorter durations, outperforming morphological relations.
    • Cross-language morphological priming emerged at longer durations.
    • The cognate advantage over non-cognates disappeared when compared to phonologically related primes.

    Conclusions:

    • Translation equivalents, particularly cognates, are strongly represented and facilitate processing in bilingual memory.
    • Phonological similarity plays a crucial role in cross-language priming effects.
    • The findings suggest distinct but interacting memory representations for different types of cross-language word relations.