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Prior, Anat; Kroll, Judith F.; Macwhinney, Brian – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
We investigated the influence of word class and translation ambiguity on cross-linguistic representation and processing. Bilingual speakers of English and Spanish performed translation production and translation recognition tasks on nouns and verbs in both languages. Words either had a single translation or more than one translation. Translation…
Descriptors: Probability, Bilingualism, Translation, Short Term Memory
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Talamas, Adrienne; Kroll, Judith F.; Dufour, Robert – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1999
Examined why adults learning second languages make frequent errors in lexical form. More and less fluent bilinguals in English and Spanish performed a translation recognition task in which they had to decide whether the second of two words was the correct translation of the first. Less fluent participants experienced more interference for…
Descriptors: Adults, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, English