Code-switching cost in word recognition
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2021/12/0029/000502Keywords:
code-switching, cost, word recognition, orthography, language nodeAbstract
There is still no consensus on the source of code-switching costs. This study focuses on whether the CS cost comes from language processing, especially the word recognition procedure. Thirty-seven Chinese-English bilinguals took part in lexical decision tasks. The results show that orthography does not affect the switching costs, which means there may be no cost in the early stage of mental lexicon processing. The choice of linguistic nodes (L1/L2) affects the switching costs, which means that the code-switching cost may come from the later stage of mental lexicon processing. Our results support that Chinese Hanzi, Pinyin, and English are stored in the same mental lexicon.
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