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Testing for Nonselective Bilingual Lexical Access Using L1 Attrited Bilinguals.
He Pu1, Yazmin E Medina2, Phillip J Holcomb3
1Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA. He.Pu@tufts.edu.
Brain Sciences
|June 5, 2019
Summary
Bilinguals
Area of Science:
- Psycholinguistics
- Cognitive Neuroscience
Background:
- Bilingual lexical access research generally supported nonselective processing, where both languages are active.
- Recent work questioned this by reinterpreting evidence for selective processing.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate bilingual lexical access models by examining first language (L1) attrition.
- To differentiate between selective and nonselective processing views using event-related potentials (ERPs).
Main Methods:
- An event-related potential (ERP) experiment was conducted.
- Spanish-English bilinguals performed a second language (L2) semantic judgment task.
- The impact of L1 attrition on L1 processing during L2 tasks was analyzed.
Main Results:
- Spanish-English bilinguals showed an N400 effect related to L1 attrition during L2 processing.
- This indicates that L1 lexical access is variable and active during L2 tasks.
- Results contradict the selective processing model proposed by Costa et al. (2017).
Conclusions:
- The findings support the traditional nonselective view of bilingual lexical access.
- L1 attrition influences L2 processing, demonstrating ongoing interaction between languages.
- This research contributes to understanding how bilinguals manage multiple languages.
Keywords:
ERPL1 attritionN400bilingual lexical accesslanguage-nonselective accesslanguage-selective accessMore Related Videos
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