Wang, Xin and Forster, Kenneth (2015) Is translation priming asymmetry due to partial awareness of the prime. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 18 (4). pp. 657-669. ISSN 1366-7289 (Print), 1469-1841 (Online) (doi:10.1017/S1366728914000650)

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Abstract

A 50ms prime duration is often adopted in both L1-L2 and L2-L1 directions in the cross-language priming paradigm. It is unknown how aware bilinguals are of the briefly presented primes of different scripts; and whether the degree of awareness of L1 and L2 primes is at a similar level. Kouider and Dupoux’s (2004) proposal of partial awareness suggests that 50ms English primes were sufficient to make a semantic interpretation. It is unclear whether this is the case when processing one’s L2 or a different script. Experiment 1 was designed to measure the comparable prime durations for semantic interpretation of Chinese primes vs. English primes. Experiment 2 tested whether partial awareness of primes would cause priming asymmetry. Our findings demonstrate that a 50ms prime duration gave rise to different degrees of semantic activation in different scripts and L1/L2. However, increasing prime duration on L2 primes did not produce L2-L1 priming.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© Cambridge University Press 2014
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Translation priming, Bilingual lexicon, Partial awareness
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS)
Last Modified:	21 Apr 2017 14:39
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/14775

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