Lexical selection in bilingual speech production does not involve language suppression.
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Finkbeiner, Matthew
Almeida, Jorge
Janssen, Niels
Caramazza, Alfonso
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Finkbeiner, Matthew, Jorge Almeida, Niels Janssen, and Alfonso Caramazza. 2006. “Lexical Selection in Bilingual Speech Production Does Not Involve Language Suppression.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 32 (5): 1075–89. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.32.5.1075.Abstract
The "hard problem" in bilingual lexical access arises when translation-equivalent lexical representations are activated to roughly equal levels and, thus, compete equally for lexical selection. The language suppression hypothesis (D. W. Green, 1998) solves this hard problem through the suppression of lexical representations in the nontarget language. Following from this proposal is the prediction that lexical selection should take longer on a language switch trial because the to-be-selected representation was just suppressed on the previous trial. Inconsistent with this prediction, participants took no longer to name pictures in their dominant language on language switch trials than they did on nonswitch trials. These findings indicate that nontarget lexical representations are not suppressed. The authors suggest that these results undermine the viability of the language suppression hypothesis as a possible solution to the hard problem in bilingual lexical access.Citable link to this page
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