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Language co-activation and lexical selection in bimodal bilinguals: Evidence from picture–word interference*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2015

MARCEL R. GIEZEN  and
KAREN EMMOREY
MARCEL R. GIEZEN*
Affiliation:
San Diego State University
KAREN EMMOREY
Affiliation:
School of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, San Diego State University
*
Address for correspondence: Marcel Giezen Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience 6495 Alvarado Road suite 200 San Diego CA 92120USAgiezenmr@gmail.com
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Abstract

We used picture–word interference (PWI) to discover a) whether cross-language activation at the lexical level can yield phonological priming effects when languages do not share phonological representations, and b) whether semantic interference effects occur without articulatory competition. Bimodal bilinguals fluent in American Sign Language (ASL) and English named pictures in ASL while listening to distractor words that were 1) translation equivalents, 2) phonologically related to the target sign through translation, 3) semantically related, or 4) unrelated. Monolingual speakers named pictures in English. Production of ASL signs was facilitated by words that were phonologically related through translation and by translation equivalents, indicating that cross-language activation spreads from lexical to phonological levels for production. Semantic interference effects were not observed for bimodal bilinguals, providing some support for a post-lexical locus of semantic interference, but which we suggest may instead reflect time course differences in spoken and signed production in the PWI task.

Keywords

bimodal bilingualismpicture–word interferencelexical selectioncross-language activationlexical competition
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Research Article
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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , March 2016 , pp. 264 - 276
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Footnotes

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This research was supported by Rubicon grant 446-10-022 from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research to Marcel Giezen and NIH grant HD047736 to Karen Emmorey and SDSU. We would like to thank our research participants, Jennifer Petrich, Cindy O’Grady Farnady and Matt Hall for help with the study, and Henrike Blumenfeld, Jill Morford and two anonymous reviewers for providing insightful comments on earlier versions of this manuscript.

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