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In:Crossroads Semantics: Computation, experiment and grammar
Edited by Hilke Reckman, Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Maarten Hijzelendoorn and Rint Sybesma
[Not in series 210] 2017
► pp. 139–154

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Chapter 9
Is bilingual speech production language-specific or non-specific?

The case of gender congruency in Dutch-English bilinguals

 | Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
 | Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, The Netherlands
Published online: 12 April 2017
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Abstract
The present paper looks at semantic interference and gender congruency effects during bilingual picture-word naming. According to Costa, Miozzo & Caramazza (1999), only the activation from lexical nodes within a language is considered during lexical selection. If this is accurate, these findings should uphold with respect to semantic and gender/determiner effects even though the distractors are in another language. In the present study three effects were found, (1) a main effect of language, (2) semantic effects for both target language and non-target language distractors, and (3) gender congruency effects for targets with target-language distractors only. These findings are at odds with the language-specific proposal of Costa et al. (1999). Implications of these findings are discussed.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Experiment – semantic interference and gender congruency effects in a bilingual picture-word interference paradigm
    • 2.1Methods
      • 2.1.1Participants
      • 2.1.2Materials
      • 2.1.3Design
      • 2.1.4Procedure
    • 2.2Results
  • 3.Discussion
  • References
  • Appendix
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