TY - JOUR
T1 - Cross talk between native and second languages
T2 - Partial Activation of an Irrelevant Lexicon
AU - Spivey, Michael J.
AU - Marian, Viorica
N1 - Funding Information:
Spivey Michael J. 1 Marian Viorica 1 1 Cornell University Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853; e-mail: spivey@cornell.edu. 5 1999 10 3 281 284 8 6 1998 6 10 1998 © 1999 Association for Psychological Science 1999 Association for Psychological Science Bilingualism provides a unique opportunity for exploring hypotheses about how the human brain encodes language. For example, the “input switch” theory states that bilinguals can deactivate one language module while using the other. A new measure of spoken language comprehension, headband-mounted eyetracking, allows a firm test of this theory. When given spoken instructions to pick up an object, in a monolingual session, late bilinguals looked briefly at a distractor object whose name in the irrelevant language was initially phonetically similar to the spoken word more often than they looked at a control distractor object. This result indicates some overlap between the two languages in bilinguals, and provides support for parallel, interactive accounts of spoken word recognition in general. We thank Barbara Finlay and Michael Harrington for comments on the manuscript; Leon Rozenblit for recording the English and Russian instructions; and Marina Basina, Yevgheniy Shildkrot, and Krista Bendig for their help with stimulus design, data collection, and coding. This work was supported by a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (M.J.S.) and a fellowship from the Presidential Council of Cornell Women (V.M.). Informed consent was obtained, and subjects' rights were protected.
PY - 1999/5
Y1 - 1999/5
N2 - Bilingualism provides a unique opportunity for exploring hypotheses about how the human brain encodes language. For example, the "input switch" theory states that bilinguals can deactivate one language module while using the other. A new measure of spoken language comprehension, headband-mounted eyetracking, allows a firm test of this theory. When given spoken instructions to pick up an object, in a monolingual session, late bilinguals looked briefly at a distractor object whose name in the irrelevant language was initially phonetically similar to the spoken word more often than they looked at a control distractor object. This result indicates some overlap between the two languages in bilinguals, and provides support for parallel, interactive accounts of spoken word recognition in general.
AB - Bilingualism provides a unique opportunity for exploring hypotheses about how the human brain encodes language. For example, the "input switch" theory states that bilinguals can deactivate one language module while using the other. A new measure of spoken language comprehension, headband-mounted eyetracking, allows a firm test of this theory. When given spoken instructions to pick up an object, in a monolingual session, late bilinguals looked briefly at a distractor object whose name in the irrelevant language was initially phonetically similar to the spoken word more often than they looked at a control distractor object. This result indicates some overlap between the two languages in bilinguals, and provides support for parallel, interactive accounts of spoken word recognition in general.
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U2 - 10.1111/1467-9280.00151
DO - 10.1111/1467-9280.00151
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0346073365
VL - 10
SP - 281
EP - 284
JO - Psychological Science
JF - Psychological Science
SN - 0956-7976
IS - 3
ER -