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Areas da Luz Fontes, Ana B.; Schwartz, Ana I. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
This study investigated the role of verbal working memory on bilingual lexical disambiguation. Spanish-English bilinguals read sentences that ended in either a cognate or noncognate homonym or a control word. Participants decided whether follow-up target words were related in meaning to the sentences. On critical trials, sentences biased the…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Inhibition, Short Term Memory
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Schwartz, Ana I.; Areas Da Luz Fontes, Ana B. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
We examined how linguistic context influences the nature of bilingual lexical activation. We hypothesized that in single-word context, form-related words would receive the strongest activation while, in sentence context, semantically related words would receive the strongest activation. Spanish-English bilinguals performed a semantic verification…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Word Recognition, Interference (Language)