Masked Semantic Priming With Bilingual Adults And Children (ESCOP Conference, Potsdam, Germany)

Aris Terzopoulos, Georgia Niolaki, Lynne Duncan, Jackie Masterson

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    Abstract

    Two experiments investigated priming effects of cognate and non-cognate translations in two different languages Greek and English. Experiments 1 and 2 involved adults and children, respectively, with either Greek or English as their dominant language who participated in a masked priming semantic categorisation task. The experimental stimuli were cognate and non-cognate translations or unrelated pairs where either the prime was in the dominant language (L1) and the target in the non-dominant (L2) or vice versa. In Experiment 1, priming for cognate translation exemplars was observed relative to the control baselines only in the L1-L2 direction (priming asymmetry). There were no effects for non-cognate exemplars. In Experiment 2 the task was the same but participants were 10 to 11 year old bilingual children, with Greek or English as their dominant language. Priming effects were observed for cognate translation exemplars in the L2 - L1 direction, whereas non-cognates did not show any effects. The results for adults are in congruence with previous research with unbalanced bilinguals and are discussed within current models of bilingual semantic organisation. The results from the children experiment are discussed with reference to task demand characteristics and effects of new methods of teaching L2 to early learners which allows exploitation of their concepts.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationMasked Semantic Priming With Bilingual Children
    Publication statusPublished - 5 Sept 2017
    Event20th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology - Potsdam, Germany
    Duration: 3 Sept 20176 Sept 2017

    Conference

    Conference20th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology
    Abbreviated titleESCOP 2017
    Country/TerritoryGermany
    CityPotsdam
    Period3/09/176/09/17

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