Cognate status and cross-script translation priming

Greek-French bilinguals were tested in three masked priming experiments with Greek primes and French targets. Related primes were the translation equivalents of target words, morphologically related to targets, or phonologically related to targets. In Experiment 1, cognate translation equivalents (p...

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Published in:Memory & cognition 2007-07, Vol.35 (5), p.938-952
Main Authors: VOGA, Madeleine, GRAINGER, Jonathan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ancient languages
Bilingualism
Bilingualism. Multilingualism
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition & reasoning
Experiments
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
Language
Linguistics
Memory
Morphology
Multilingualism
Phonetics
Phonology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time
Semantics
Studies
Translations
Vocabulary
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Summary:Greek-French bilinguals were tested in three masked priming experiments with Greek primes and French targets. Related primes were the translation equivalents of target words, morphologically related to targets, or phonologically related to targets. In Experiment 1, cognate translation equivalents (phonologically similar translations) showed facilitatory priming, relative to matched phonologically related primes, in conditions in which morphologically related primes showed no effect (50-msec prime exposure). Cross-language morphological priming emerged at longer prime exposure durations (66 msec), but cognate primes continued to generate more priming than did those in the morphological condition. In Experiments 2 and 3, the level of phonological overlap across translation equivalents was varied, and priming effects were measured against those for matched phonologically related primes and those in an unrelated prime condition. When measured against the unrelated baseline, cognate primes showed the typical advantage over noncognate primes. However, this cognate advantage disappeared when priming was measured against the phonologically related prime condition. The results are discussed in terms of how translation equivalents are represented in bilingual memory.
ISSN:0090-502X
1532-5946
DOI:10.3758/bf03193467