Does bilingualism hamper lexical access in speech production?
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In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that bilingualism may cause a linguistic disadvantage in lexical access even for bilinguals' first and dominant language. To this purpose, we conducted a picture naming experiment comparing the performance of monolinguals and highly-proficient, L1-dominant bilinguals. The results revealed that monolinguals name pictures faster than bilinguals, both when bilinguals perform picture naming in their first and dominant language and when they do so in their weaker second language. This is the first time it has been demonstrated that bilinguals show a naming disadvantage in their L1 in comparison to monolingual speakers.
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Bilinguals take longer to comprehend and produce words, even when using their first and dominant language.
“Slower responses for bilinguals are also found for both comprehending [31] and producing words [32], even when bilinguals respond in their first and dominant language.”
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- Authors
- Ivanova, I., & Costa, A.
- Affiliations
- Universitat de Barcelona (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Costa, Albert
- Venue
- Acta Psychologica
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-02
- Volume
- 127
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 277-288
- ISSN
- 0001-6918 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1998158544
- Cited by
- 455
- References
- 4
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- FWCI
- 4.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Acta Psychologica (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
- Keywords
- bilingualism, lexical access, speech production, picture naming, mother tongue, dominant language, second language
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Decision Making, Humans, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Psycholinguistics, Reaction Time, Mental Recall, Semantics, Speech, Students, Task Performance and Analysis, Vocabulary, Multilingualism
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