Lexical Decision and Language Switching

Reports two studies exploring whether there is a cost in switching languages in a lexical decision task. In the first experiment, German-English bilinguals were slower on switch trials compared to nonswitch trials. In the second experiment, the task was changed to one in which a word response could...

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Published inThe international journal of bilingualism : cross-disciplinary, cross-linguistic studies of language behavior Vol. 1; no. 1; p. 3
Main Authors von Studnitz, Roswitha E, Green, David W
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.03.1997
Subjects
Bilingualism
Code Switching (Language)
Cognitive Processes
Comparative Analysis
English
German
Task Analysis
Vocabulary
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Summary:Reports two studies exploring whether there is a cost in switching languages in a lexical decision task. In the first experiment, German-English bilinguals were slower on switch trials compared to nonswitch trials. In the second experiment, the task was changed to one in which a word response could be given independent of language. There was still a cost of switching between languages, but it was much lower. (Author/VWL)
ISSN:1367-0069
DOI:10.1177/136700699700100102