Masked priming in picture naming and lexical selection
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0004/000419Keywords:
lexical selection, lexical access, speech production, different scriptAbstract
Our study focused on the co-activation of lexical nodes in bilinguals’ speech production. We investigated whether the co-activated lexical forms compete for selection or not and whether language proficiency level would modulate the co-activation level in bilinguals. We tested the performance of Arabic-English bilinguals using the masked priming paradigm in a picture naming task. We found that the co-activated lexical forms do not compete for selection and that proficiency level does not affect the process of lexical selection.References
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