The Relationship Between Bilingual Language Control and Language Dominance: An Empirical Study of Visual Language Perception.
Bilingual visual perception is an under-researched area in psycholinguistics and has yielded contradictory results regarding language control. Two theories were developed to account for visual language perception in bilinguals - the Inhibitory Control model (Green, 1986) and the Bilingual Interactiv...
| Published in: | East European Journal of Psycholinguistics Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 144 - 163 |
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Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University
2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=175429077&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 175429077 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 23123265 MSGX jtl: East European Journal of Psycholinguistics issn: 23123265 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2023 vid: 10 iid: 2 pid: 63967 pub: Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University artinfo: ui: 175429077 10.29038/eejpl.2023.10.2.rev ppf: 144 ppct: 19 formats: tig: atl: The Relationship Between Bilingual Language Control and Language Dominance: An Empirical Study of Visual Language Perception. aug: au: Revniuk, Volodymyr Bátyi, Szilvia affil: University of Pannonia, Hungary su: Bilingualism Dominant language Visual programming languages (Computer science) Empirical research Psycholinguistics sug: subj: Bilingualism Dominant language Visual programming languages (Computer science) Empirical research Psycholinguistics keyword: візуальне сприйняття двомовний мовне домінування мовний досвід мовний контроль тривалість переключення bilingual language background language control language dominance switching cost visual perception візуальне сприйняття двомовний мовне домінування мовний досвід мовний контроль тривалість переключення ab: Bilingual visual perception is an under-researched area in psycholinguistics and has yielded contradictory results regarding language control. Two theories were developed to account for visual language perception in bilinguals - the Inhibitory Control model (Green, 1986) and the Bilingual Interactive Activation model (Grainger and Dijkstra, 1992). Even though these two accounts have opposite predictions for asymmetrical language control (different for the bilingual's L1 and L2), most research up to date found evidence only for symmetrical control (Macizo et al., 2012; Orfanidou and Summer, 2005). This study aims to investigate the influence of language dominance on the visual language perception of bilinguals and providing evidence for the accountability of the models mentioned above. Thirty-one Hungarian-English bilinguals were recruited for this study. Participants' language dominance was operationalized by a complex score using the Bilingual Language Profile questionnaire (Birdsong et al., 2012). The bilingual lexical decision task was used to investigate the differences in the cognitive processing of the two languages. Target stimuli were carefully matched for their visual and linguistic features to eliminate the potential confounding influences on their perception during task performance. For unbalanced, L1 dominant bilinguals, asymmetrical, dominance-related switching cost was observed, indicating the relevance of the Inhibitory Control model. Faster L2 processing correlated with a richer history of L2-associated experiences and more balanced bilingualism. However, no correlations were found with the frequency of language use, language attitudes, and only weak correlations were observed with language proficiency. The current research proposes a methodological framework for measuring the influence of linguistic background on language switching cost that could ensure comparability between further studies. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y dt: @attributes: year: 2023 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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