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Cross-language message- and word-level transfer effects in bilingual text processing.

Deanna C Friesen1, Debra Jared

  • 1University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

Memory & Cognition
|December 8, 2007
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Bilinguals

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Bilingualism Research

Background:

  • Understanding how bilingual individuals process written text is crucial for cognitive science.
  • Previous research suggests varying degrees of language interaction during bilingual reading.
  • The role of semantic and lexical information in cross-language transfer remains an active area of investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the nature of mental representations formed by bilinguals when reading.
  • To determine the extent to which these representations are language-specific or shared.
  • To examine the influence of meaning and form on cross-language facilitation.

Main Methods:

  • Eye movements of English-French bilinguals were tracked while reading passage pairs.

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  • Passage pairs varied in relatedness: identical, content-only, content and cognates, words-only, or unrelated.
  • Dependent measures included overall reading times and fixation latencies on cognates.

    • Main Results:

    • Significant cross-language facilitation was observed when passages shared meaning.
    • Facilitation was greater for identical passages than for translated passages, suggesting meaning-based representations with some surface form information.
    • Cognate transfer depended on bilingual proficiency, transfer direction, and shared meaning.

    Conclusions:

    • Bilingual reading representations are primarily meaning-based but retain some surface-form details.
    • Cross-language transfer is influenced by semantic overlap and lexical similarity.
    • Findings contribute to models of text representation in bilinguals, such as Raney's (2003) model.