Chen Donggui, Su Jingan, Wang Ruiming
School of Foreign Languages, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou, China.
Philosophy and Social Science Laboratory of Reading and Development in Children and Adolescents, Ministry of Education, & Center for Studies of Psychological Application, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2024 Jul 1;18:1408411. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2024.1408411. eCollection 2024.
Two experiments were conducted to investigate the differences in perceptual representations among multilingual individuals. In Experiment 1, the immediate sentence-picture verification paradigm was used to investigate perceptual representations in the working memory stage. The results suggest a match effect within the first language (Cantonese), but not within the second language (Mandarin) or the third language (English), showing perceptual representations only in first language comprehension. In Experiment 2, the delayed sentence-picture verification paradigm was used to investigate perceptual representations in long-term memory. Similarly, the results suggest a match effect within the first language (Mandarin), but not within the second language (English). The findings of both experiments suggest that the first language was perceptually represented, regardless of whether it was Cantonese or Mandarin, regardless of the processing in working memory or long-term memory. No evidence was found for perceptual representations in the later-learned languages, regardless of high or low proficiency. Our study has implications for theories of language comprehension and embodied cognition.
进行了两项实验来研究多语言者在感知表征上的差异。在实验1中，即时句子 - 图片验证范式被用于研究工作记忆阶段的感知表征。结果表明，在第一语言（粤语）中有匹配效应，但在第二语言（普通话）或第三语言（英语）中没有，这表明只有在第一语言理解中存在感知表征。在实验2中，延迟句子 - 图片验证范式被用于研究长期记忆中的感知表征。同样，结果表明在第一语言（普通话）中有匹配效应，但在第二语言（英语）中没有。两项实验的结果都表明，无论第一语言是粤语还是普通话，无论在工作记忆还是长期记忆中进行处理，第一语言都会在感知上得到表征。没有发现后期学习语言存在感知表征的证据，无论其熟练程度高低。我们的研究对语言理解理论和具身认知具有启示意义。
