Constrained word association tasks for bilinguals: support for parallel processing

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Description

Creator:

Serre, Diane C

Responsibility:

Diane C Serre

Start Date:

1998

End Date:

1998

Date Range:

1998 April 02

Physical Description:

1.69 MB of textual records (PDF)

Notes:

Audience: Undergraduate. -- Dissertation: Thesis (B. A.). -- Algoma University, 1998. -- Submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirements for PSYC 4105. -- Includes tables and questionnaires. -- Contents: Literature review / Thesis.

Bibliographic Information

Publication:

Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.:

Standard No:

OSTMA-PSYC-Serre-Diane-C-19980402

Physical Location

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2013-064-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Algoma University Theses collection

Container Number:

001

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Historical Context:

Can bilinguals complete word association tasks requiring processing across both languages simultaneously? Researchers have found evidence for parallel processing with visual feature discrimination and letter recognition tasks. The present study attempts to find support for parallel processing by exploring lexical retrieval tasks that require a search across bilinguals' two languages. Twenty-two bilingual university and college students and faculty received 75 trials on which they were given an English word and asked to either; 1) find an English word with an opposite meaning, 2) find a French word with the same meaning and, 3) find a French word with an opposite meaning. A significant difference in RT was found between these three tasks. Results failed to provide support for parallel processing.

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All material is in English.

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