Inter-lingual homograph letter detection in mixed language text: Persistent missing-letter effects and the effect of language switching

• Autores: Seth Greenberg, Jean Saint-Aubin
• Localización: Bilingualism: Language and cognition, ISSN 1366-7289, Vol. 11, Nº 1, 2008, págs. 111-119
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Heretofore, we learned that bilinguals better detected letters in inter-lingual homographs when the context language ascribed a content role to the homograph as compared to a function role. In previous work the target homographs appeared in passages that were of a single language. The present work investigated whether this letter detection pattern would hold if both languages were activated by intermixing languages in a passage. Results suggested that despite intermixing of languages that would excite competing function and content meanings, local sentence context was sufficient to engender a content over function word advantage for inter-lingual homographs that was reminiscent of that obtained with homogenous text.