Testing for Nonselective Bilingual Lexical Access Using L1 Attrited Bilinguals.

ABSTRACT: Research in the past few decades generally supported a nonselective view of bilingual lexical access, where a bilingual's two languages are both active during monolingual processing. However, recent work by Costa et al. (2017) brought this into question by reinterpreting evidence for nonselectivity in a selective manner. We manipulated the factor of first language (L1) attrition in an event-related potential (ERP) experiment to disentangle Costa and colleagues' selective processing proposal versus the traditional nonselective processing view of bilingual lexical access. Spanish-English bilinguals demonstrated an N400 effect of L1 attrition during implicit L1 processing in a second language (L2) semantic judgment task, indicating the contribution of variable L1 lexical access during L2 proc

SUBMITTER: Pu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6628369 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature