Do Cross-Language Script Differences Enable Bilinguals to Function Selectively When Speaking in One Language Alone?

ABSTRACT: The present study examined the role of script in bilingual speech planning by comparing the performance of same and different-script bilinguals. Spanish-English bilinguals (Experiment 1) and Japanese-English bilinguals (Experiment 2) performed a picture-word interference task in which they were asked to name a picture of an object in English, their second language, while ignoring a visual distractor word in Spanish or Japanese, their first language. Results replicated the general pattern seen in previous bilingual picture-word interference studies for the same-script, Spanish-English bilinguals but not for the different-script, Japanese-English bilinguals. Both groups showed translation facilitation, whereas only Spanish-English bilinguals demonstrated semantic interference, phonological f

SUBMITTER: Hoshino N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9004719 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature