The present study investigated bilingual lexical organization in two groups of French-English bilinguals: (1) Compound bilinguals, who acquired both languages in early childhood and speak both with high proficiency; and (2) Subordinate bilinguals, who started speaking their second language during or after adolescence and have reduced L2 proficiency. Subjects were tested on a cross-language auditory primed lexical decision task containing translations and associated words with both cognate and noncognate equivalents. Both subject groups demonstrated significant translation and associative priming, indicating that both groups of subjects had access to a conceptual route of processing. However, no significant facilitation was found for cognates over noncognates in the auditory modality, contrary to previous studies using visual presentation. A general model of compound bilingual lexical organization is derived, and the results are discussed in terms of their implications for second language acquisition.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.23385 |
| Date | January 1995 |
| Creators | Bourque, Michelle A. (Michelle Anne) |
| Contributors | Baum, Shan R. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (School of Communication Sciences and Disorders.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001481321, proquestno: MM12165, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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