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Color naming in Tsimane’–Spanish bilinguals indicates that differential experience with content domains affects lexical access
A standard assumption in the bilingual language processing literature is that the ease of access of a word in a language is determined by the speaker’s overall proficiency in the language. Alternatively, it could be that proficiency varies across semantic categories of the bilingual’s two languages....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9582210/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36261439 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18461-9 |
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author | Malik-Moraleda, Saima Roca, Manuel Gibson, Edward |
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description | A standard assumption in the bilingual language processing literature is that the ease of access of a word in a language is determined by the speaker’s overall proficiency in the language. Alternatively, it could be that proficiency varies across semantic categories of the bilingual’s two languages. Here, we investigated lexical access in color terms in Tsimane’–Spanish bilinguals. Given that color terms are generally more frequent in Spanish than Tsimane’, participants may have better lexical access for color words in Spanish despite being overall more proficient in Tsimane’. Twenty-two Tsimane’–Spanish bilinguals took part in a picture naming task where participants labeled colors and animals. Participants were equally fast and accurate at naming animals in Tsimane’ and Spanish. However, participants were faster and more accurate at naming colors in Spanish than Tsimane’ except for the three color words that are most frequent (jaibes ~ white, tsincus ~ black, jaines ~ red) in Tsimane’, for which they were equally fast in both Tsimane’ and Spanish. These results suggest that category-specific proficiency is a better predictor for lexical access than overall proficiency. |
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spelling | pubmed-95822102022-10-21 Color naming in Tsimane’–Spanish bilinguals indicates that differential experience with content domains affects lexical access Malik-Moraleda, Saima Roca, Manuel Gibson, Edward Sci Rep Article A standard assumption in the bilingual language processing literature is that the ease of access of a word in a language is determined by the speaker’s overall proficiency in the language. Alternatively, it could be that proficiency varies across semantic categories of the bilingual’s two languages. Here, we investigated lexical access in color terms in Tsimane’–Spanish bilinguals. Given that color terms are generally more frequent in Spanish than Tsimane’, participants may have better lexical access for color words in Spanish despite being overall more proficient in Tsimane’. Twenty-two Tsimane’–Spanish bilinguals took part in a picture naming task where participants labeled colors and animals. Participants were equally fast and accurate at naming animals in Tsimane’ and Spanish. However, participants were faster and more accurate at naming colors in Spanish than Tsimane’ except for the three color words that are most frequent (jaibes ~ white, tsincus ~ black, jaines ~ red) in Tsimane’, for which they were equally fast in both Tsimane’ and Spanish. These results suggest that category-specific proficiency is a better predictor for lexical access than overall proficiency. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9582210/ /pubmed/36261439 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18461-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Malik-Moraleda, Saima Roca, Manuel Gibson, Edward Color naming in Tsimane’–Spanish bilinguals indicates that differential experience with content domains affects lexical access |
title | Color naming in Tsimane’–Spanish bilinguals indicates that differential experience with content domains affects lexical access |
title_full | Color naming in Tsimane’–Spanish bilinguals indicates that differential experience with content domains affects lexical access |
title_fullStr | Color naming in Tsimane’–Spanish bilinguals indicates that differential experience with content domains affects lexical access |
title_full_unstemmed | Color naming in Tsimane’–Spanish bilinguals indicates that differential experience with content domains affects lexical access |
title_short | Color naming in Tsimane’–Spanish bilinguals indicates that differential experience with content domains affects lexical access |
title_sort | color naming in tsimane’–spanish bilinguals indicates that differential experience with content domains affects lexical access |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9582210/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36261439 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18461-9 |
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