Implicit co-activation of American Sign Language in deaf readers: An ERP study.

ABSTRACT: In an implicit phonological priming paradigm, deaf bimodal bilinguals made semantic relatedness decisions for pairs of English words. Half of the semantically unrelated pairs had phonologically related translations in American Sign Language (ASL). As in previous studies with unimodal bilinguals, targets in pairs with phonologically related translations elicited smaller negativities than targets in pairs with phonologically unrelated translations within the N400 window. This suggests that the same lexicosemantic mechanism underlies implicit co-activation of a non-target language, irrespective of language modality. In contrast to unimodal bilingual studies that find no behavioral effects, we observed phonological interference, indicating that bimodal bilinguals may not suppress the non-targe

SUBMITTER: Meade G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5538318 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature