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Emmorey, Karen; Petrich, Jennifer A. F.; Gollan, Tamar H. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Bilinguals who are fluent in American Sign Language (ASL) and English often produce "code-blends"--simultaneously articulating a sign and a word while conversing with other ASL-English bilinguals. To investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying code-blend processing, we compared picture-naming times (Experiment 1) and semantic categorization…
Descriptors: Speech, Language Processing, American Sign Language, Semantics
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Perea, Manuel; Dunabeitia, Jon Andoni; Carreiras, Manuel – Journal of Memory and Language, 2008
One key issue for models of bilingual memory is to what degree the semantic representation from one of the languages is shared with the other language. In the present paper, we examine whether there is an early, automatic semantic priming effect across languages for noncognates with highly proficient (Basque/Spanish) bilinguals. Experiment 1 was a…
Descriptors: Semantics, Memory, Indo European Languages, Semiotics
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Singh, Leher; Morgan, James L.; White, Katherine S. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
Infants prefer to listen to happy speech. To assess influences of speech affect on early lexical processing, 7.5- and 10.5-month-old infants were familiarized with one word spoken with happy affect and another with neutral affect and then tested on recognition of these words in fluent passages. Infants heard all passages either with happy affect…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Language Processing, Infants, Familiarity