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ERIC Number: EJ1158438
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Dec
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-0090-6905
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Asymmetrical Priming Effects: An Exploration of Trilingual German-English-French Lexico-Semantic Memory
Tytus, Agnieszka Ewa
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, v46 n6 p1625-1644 Dec 2017
The growing number of multilingual speakers poses an interesting question as to the way in which three or more languages are represented in the memory of a language user. The Revised Hierarchical Model (Kroll and Stewart in "J Mem Lang" 33: 149-174, 1994) or the Sense Model (Finkbeiner et al. in "J Mem Lang" 51(1), 1-22, 2004) skillfully capture the prediction regarding two languages, with the lexical level being separate and the conceptual one being unified or distributed to a varying degree. In this set of experiments, we employed primed animacy decision tasks to address the lexico-semantic representation of trilingual German-English-French speakers. The comparison of reaction times has revealed priming effects from L1 to L2 and from L2 to L1, both with prime duration of 100 and 50 ms; a priming asymmetry effect between the L2 and L3 language directions; and no interaction between L1 and L3. The aggregated findings point to a hybrid representation, with both compound and coordinate representations being possible.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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