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The impact of brief exposure to the second language on native language production: Global or item specific?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2019

Tamar Degani Open the ORCID record for Tamar Degani [Opens in a new window] ,
Hamutal Kreiner ,
Haya Ataria  and
Farha Khateeb
Tamar Degani*
Affiliation:
University of Haifa
Hamutal Kreiner
Affiliation:
Ruppin Academic Center
Haya Ataria
Affiliation:
University of Haifa
Farha Khateeb
Affiliation:
University of Haifa
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: tdegani@research.haifa.ac.il
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Abstract

Bilinguals routinely shift between their languages, changing languages between communicative settings. To test the consequences of such changes in language use, 48 Arabic–Hebrew bilinguals named pictures in Arabic (L1) before and after a brief exposure manipulation, including either reading a list of Hebrew (L2) words aloud or performing a nonlinguistic task. Half of the items post-exposure were new and half were translation equivalents of the words presented during the L2 exposure task. Further, half of the items were very low-frequency L1 words, typically replaced by borrowed L2 words. Results show that across word types bilinguals were less accurate and produced more L2 cross-language errors in their dominant L1 following brief L2 exposure. Error rates were comparable for translation equivalents and new items, but more cross-language errors were observed post-exposure on translation equivalents. These findings demonstrate the engagement of both global whole-language control mechanisms and item-based competitive processes, and highlight the importance of language context and the dynamic nature of bilingual performance.

Keywords

bilingual controlitem specificlanguage shiftswhole language
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Original Article
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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , January 2020 , pp. 153 - 183
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© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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