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In:Cross-language Influences in Bilingual Processing and Second Language Acquisition:
Edited by Irina Elgort, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia and Marc Brysbaert
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition 16] 2023
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Chapter 7
Cross-language influences in L2 semantic and conceptual representation and processing

 | University of Melbourne
 | Ghent University
 | Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington
Published online: 1 May 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/bpa.16.07ded
Abstract
Languages come with a unique set of words to label concepts so that sometimes a word in one language does not have a semantic equivalent in another language. This lack of equivalence is multi-faceted: words in two languages can be defined at different levels of abstraction, have different senses, or have conflicting affective connotations. What factors determine semantic equivalence across languages, and how are they incorporated in current theories of bilingual semantic representation? How do bilinguals navigate conflicting meanings or leverage semantic equivalence between two languages? To address these questions, this chapter will draw on recent proposals that combine multimodal experiential and linguistic representations to capture meaning. The multimodal view provides a framework to review distinct types of semantic equivalence at the feature, word, and language level. Finally, the implications of differentiating different types of semantic equivalence for bilingual studies are discussed.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Traditional views of words and meaning
  • 3.Sources of semantic non-equivalence between languages
    • 3.1Feature level
    • 3.2Word level
    • 3.3Domain and language level
  • 4.New views about word meanings within a language
    • 4.1Embodied cognition provides experiential information
    • 4.2Word co-occurrences provide lexical-semantic information
    • 4.3Multimodal accounts
    • 4.4The hub-and-spoke model
    • 4.5The words-as-cues perspective
  • 5.Challenges for crosslinguistic multimodal models
    • 5.1How much information do computational lexical-semantic models provide about language equivalence?
    • 5.2Lexical-semantic vectors based on bilingual input?
    • 5.3How can embodiment effects be tested in L2?
    • 5.4The role of proficiency?
    • 5.5Other challenges
  • Notes
  • References
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