Bilingualism: Language and Cognition

Table of Contents - January 2012 - Volume 15, Special Issue 01 (Bilingual children with Specific Language Impairment)  

Research Notes

Non-selective lexical access in different-script bilinguals

JIHYE MOONa1 c1 and NAN JIANGa1

a1 University of Maryland

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.

(Received May 13 2010)

(Revised October 29 2010)

(Accepted January 12 2011)

(Online publication July 07 2011)

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c1 Address for correspondence Jihye Moon, Second Language Acquisition, 3215 Jiménez Hall College Park, MD 20742 jimoon@umd.edu

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