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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Sociolinguistics

Background:

  • Understanding word codability and meaning intensity is crucial in psycholinguistics.
  • Bilingualism's impact on cognitive processes, including language encoding and semantic representation, is an area of ongoing research.
  • Previous studies suggest potential differences in how bilinguals and monolinguals process language.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate differences in word codability and meaning intensity between English-speaking monolinguals and French-American bilinguals.
  • To examine the relationship between classical coding measures and semantic intensity in both groups.
  • To explore how language background influences the association of meaning with words.

Main Methods:

  • Participants included 20 English-speaking monolinguals and 20 French-American bilinguals.
  • Participants encoded 11 words, with measures including latency, reaction time, word count, syllable count, and interpersonal agreement.
  • The semantic differential technique was used to assess meaning intensity.

Main Results:

  • Classical coding measures correlated as expected within each group.
  • Meaning intensity was inversely correlated with coding measures for monolinguals.
  • Meaning intensity was directly correlated with coding measures for bilinguals, suggesting different underlying processes.

Conclusions:

  • While basic word coding measures are comparable across bilinguals and monolinguals, their relationship with semantic intensity differs significantly.
  • For bilinguals, highly meaningful words may be those with numerous associations.
  • For monolinguals, highly meaningful words may be those with fewer, more specific associations.