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ERP Response Unveils Effect of Second Language Manipulation on First Language Processing
Lexical access in bilinguals has been considered either selective or non-selective and evidence exists in favor of both hypotheses. We conducted a linguistic experiment to assess whether a bilingual’s language mode influences the processing of first language information. We recorded event related po...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5125703/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27893807 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167194 |
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author | Khachatryan, Elvira Camarrone, Flavio Fias, Wim Van Hulle, Marc M. |
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description | Lexical access in bilinguals has been considered either selective or non-selective and evidence exists in favor of both hypotheses. We conducted a linguistic experiment to assess whether a bilingual’s language mode influences the processing of first language information. We recorded event related potentials during a semantic priming paradigm with a covert manipulation of the second language (L2) using two types of stimulus presentations (short and long). We observed a significant facilitation of word pairs related in L2 in the short version reflected by a decrease in N400 amplitude in response to target words related to the English meaning of an inter-lingual homograph (homograph-unrelated group). This was absent in the long version, as the N400 amplitude for this group was similar to the one for the control-unrelated group. We also interviewed the participants whether they were aware of the importance of L2 in the experiment. We conclude that subjects participating in the long and short versions were in different language modes: closer to monolingual mode for the long and closer to bilingual mode for the short version; and that awareness about covert manipulation of L2 can influence the language mode, which in its turn influences the processing of the first language. |
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spelling | pubmed-51257032016-12-15 ERP Response Unveils Effect of Second Language Manipulation on First Language Processing Khachatryan, Elvira Camarrone, Flavio Fias, Wim Van Hulle, Marc M. PLoS One Research Article Lexical access in bilinguals has been considered either selective or non-selective and evidence exists in favor of both hypotheses. We conducted a linguistic experiment to assess whether a bilingual’s language mode influences the processing of first language information. We recorded event related potentials during a semantic priming paradigm with a covert manipulation of the second language (L2) using two types of stimulus presentations (short and long). We observed a significant facilitation of word pairs related in L2 in the short version reflected by a decrease in N400 amplitude in response to target words related to the English meaning of an inter-lingual homograph (homograph-unrelated group). This was absent in the long version, as the N400 amplitude for this group was similar to the one for the control-unrelated group. We also interviewed the participants whether they were aware of the importance of L2 in the experiment. We conclude that subjects participating in the long and short versions were in different language modes: closer to monolingual mode for the long and closer to bilingual mode for the short version; and that awareness about covert manipulation of L2 can influence the language mode, which in its turn influences the processing of the first language. Public Library of Science 2016-11-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5125703/ /pubmed/27893807 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167194 Text en © 2016 Khachatryan et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Khachatryan, Elvira Camarrone, Flavio Fias, Wim Van Hulle, Marc M. ERP Response Unveils Effect of Second Language Manipulation on First Language Processing |
title | ERP Response Unveils Effect of Second Language Manipulation on First Language Processing |
title_full | ERP Response Unveils Effect of Second Language Manipulation on First Language Processing |
title_fullStr | ERP Response Unveils Effect of Second Language Manipulation on First Language Processing |
title_full_unstemmed | ERP Response Unveils Effect of Second Language Manipulation on First Language Processing |
title_short | ERP Response Unveils Effect of Second Language Manipulation on First Language Processing |
title_sort | erp response unveils effect of second language manipulation on first language processing |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5125703/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27893807 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167194 |
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