Philosophy and Social Science Laboratory of Reading and Development in Children and Adolescents (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, China; Center for Studies of Psychological Application, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China.
Philosophy and Social Science Laboratory of Reading and Development in Children and Adolescents (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, China; Center for Studies of Psychological Application, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2022 Sep;229:103693. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103693. Epub 2022 Aug 4.
In bilingual word recognition, cross-language activation has been found in unimodal bilinguals (e.g., Chinese-English bilinguals) and bimodal bilinguals (e.g., American Sign language-English bilinguals). However, it remains unclear how signs' phonological parameters, spoken words' orthographic and phonological representation, and language proficiency affect cross-language activation in bimodal bilinguals. To resolve the issues, we recruited deaf Chinese sign language (CSL)-Chinese bimodal bilinguals as participants. We conducted two experiments with the implicit priming paradigm and the semantic relatedness decision task. Experiment 1 first showed cross-language activation from Chinese to CSL, and the CSL words' phonological parameter affected the cross-language activation. Experiment 2 further revealed inverse cross-language activation from CSL to Chinese. The Chinese words' orthographic and phonological representation played a similar role in the cross-language activation. Moreover, a comparison between Experiments 1 and 2 indicated that language proficiency influenced cross-language activation. The findings were further discussed with the Bilingual Interactive Activation Plus (BIA+) model, the deaf BIA+ model, and the Bilingual Language Interaction Network for Comprehension of Speech (BLINCS) model.
在双语词汇识别中，跨语言激活在单模态双语者（如汉英双语者）和双模态双语者（如美国手语-英语双语者）中都有发现。然而，手语的语音参数、口语词的正字法和语音表示以及语言熟练程度如何影响双模态双语者的跨语言激活仍不清楚。为了解决这些问题，我们招募了聋人中国手语（CSL）-汉语双模态双语者作为参与者。我们使用内隐启动范式和语义相关决策任务进行了两项实验。实验 1 首先显示了从汉语到 CSL 的跨语言激活，并且 CSL 词的语音参数影响了跨语言激活。实验 2 进一步揭示了从 CSL 到汉语的逆向跨语言激活。汉语词的正字法和语音表示在跨语言激活中起相似的作用。此外，实验 1 和实验 2 的比较表明，语言熟练程度影响了跨语言激活。研究结果还结合了双语交互激活加（BIA+）模型、聋人 BIA+模型和言语理解的双语语言交互网络（BLINCS）模型进行了讨论。
