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Psycholinguistics Coffee

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Informal Meeting to Discuss Psycholinguistic Research

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Please join us for the following talk in room G.26 7GS. Our speaker this week will join us from online. The link to the online Teams meeting will be sent to the mailing list closer to the time for those who cannot join us in Edinburgh.

 

Speaker

Huanhuan Yin (University of Edinburgh)

 

Time and date

May 1st, 1.30 PM.

 

Title and abstract

Predicting Words Across Languages Depends on Language Context: Evidence from Visual World Eye-Tracking

Compared to monolinguals, bilinguals predict less and slower in their second language (L2) comprehension (Ito et al., 2018; Martin et al., 2013). This reduced efficiency is likely due to the co-activation of the non-target language interfering with predictions in the target language. Using two visual-world experiments, we examined whether bilinguals pre-activate the phonological representations of predictable words in their native language (L1) during L2 comprehension, and whether cross-language prediction depends on language context. The results showed that bilinguals make cross-language lexical predictions in L2 comprehension, but such non-selective lexical predicitons only occur in a two-language context where both languages are used.

 

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