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Non-selective lexical access in different-script bilinguals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2011

JIHYE MOON  and
NAN JIANG
JIHYE MOON*
Affiliation:
University of Maryland
NAN JIANG
Affiliation:
University of Maryland
*
Address for correspondence Jihye Moon, Second Language Acquisition, 3215 Jiménez Hall College Park, MD 20742jimoon@umd.edu
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Abstract

Lexical access in bilinguals is known to be largely non-selective. However, most studies in this area have involved bilinguals whose two languages share the same script. This study aimed to examine bilingual lexical access among bilinguals whose two languages have distinct scripts. Korean–English bilinguals were tested in a phoneme monitoring task in their first or second language. The results showed a simultaneous activation of the non-target language in a monolingual task, suggesting non-selective lexical access even among bilinguals whose two languages do not share the same script. Language dominance did not affect the pattern of results.

Keywords

phoneme monitoringbilingual lexical accessKoreanselectivenon-selectivelanguage dominance
Type
Research Notes
Information
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 15 , Special Issue 1: Bilingual children with Specific Language Impairment , January 2012 , pp. 173 - 180
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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