Zooming in on zooming out: Partial selectivity and dynamic tuning of bilingual language control during reading.

ABSTRACT: Prominent models of bilingual visual word recognition posit a bottom-up nonselective view of lexical processing with parallel access to lexical candidates of both languages. However, these accounts do not accommodate recent findings of top-down effects on the relative global activation level of each language during bilingual reading. We conducted two eye-tracking experiments to systematically assess the degree of accessibility of each language in different global language contexts. When critical words were presented overtly in Experiment 1, code switches disrupted reading early during lexical processing, but not as much as pseudowords did. Participants zoomed out of the target language with increasing exposure to language switches. In Experiment 2, a monolingual language context was create

SUBMITTER: Hoversten LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6941660 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature