ERIC Number: EJ1221131
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Publication Date: 2019
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Active and Dormant Languages in the Multilingual Mental Lexicon
Tytus, Agnieszka Ewa
International Journal of Multilingualism, v16 n3 p357-374 2019
Two experimental paradigms, a picture-naming task and a Stroop interference task, were employed to address the structure of the multilingual mental lexicon; more specifically, the process of multilingual non-selective lexical access. German-English-French speakers named objects in their native and most dominant language in a task that included a manipulation of triple ("Wein," "wine," "vin") and double cognates ("Beere," "berry" or "Zitrone, citron"). The vocal Stroop task was administered in both within- and between-language conditions to explore the interference patterns between the languages. In general, it was hypothesised that differing levels of language proficiency will play an integral role in the observed results. The speech onset times were measured for both tasks and pointed to complex interaction patterns. German and English were seen as the most active and prone to interference systems, whilst French appeared more as a dormant language that does not exert much influence on the other two systems.
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Psycholinguistics, Language Processing, German, French, Pictorial Stimuli, Task Analysis, Native Language, Language Dominance, Language Proficiency, Interference (Language), Contrastive Linguistics, Color, Interference (Learning), Reaction Time, Visual Stimuli, Language Patterns, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Stroop Color Word Test
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