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@article{citeulike:2603333, abstract = {Bilinguals named pictures in their dominant language more slowly (and with more errors) than did monolinguals. In contrast, bilinguals named the same pictures as quickly as did monolinguals on the fifth presentation (in Experiment 2) and classified them (as human made or natural) as quickly and accurately as did monolinguals (in Experiment 1). In addition, bilinguals retrieved English picture names more quickly if they knew the name in both Spanish and English (on the basis of a translation test that bilinguals completed after the timed tasks), and monolingual response times for the same materials suggested that this finding was not obtained simply because names that were easier to translate were easier in general. These findings suggest that bilinguals differ from monolinguals at a postconceptual processing level, that implicit activation of lexical representations in the nontarget language can facilitate retrieval in the target language, and that being bilingual is analogous to having a lexicon full of lower frequency words, relative to monolinguals.}, address = {Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0949, USA. tgollan@ucsd.edu}, author = {Gollan, T. H. and Montoya, R. I. and Fennema-Notestine, C. and Morris, S. K.}, citeulike-article-id = {2603333}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16532855}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16532855}, comment = {The study is very simple and clear. The results are also clear. bilingual disadvantage- Some studies suggest that achieving and maintaining proficient bilingualism does come with a subtle cost to the dominant language. Bilinguals named fewer pictures in verbal fluent task and more TOT etc. Two possible explanation- cross-language interference and weaker links between semantics and lexical system. Method- participants: English dominant or equivalent Spanish-English bilingual \& English monolingual. Picture naming and classification Repeatition in picture naming Results- Disadvantage exists on picture naming task, i.e., more slowly and with more errors in bilingual, but not on picture classification task. This disadvantage survives across five repeatition.}, issn = {0090-502X}, journal = {Mem Cognit}, keywords = {bilingual, bilingualism, classification, naming, picture}, month = {October}, number = {7}, pages = {1220--1234}, posted-at = {2008-05-29 19:50:21}, priority = {2}, title = {Bilingualism affects picture naming but not picture classification.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16532855}, volume = {33}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2603333 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2603333 N2 - Bilinguals named pictures in their dominant language more slowly (and with more errors) than did monolinguals. In contrast, bilinguals named the same pictures as quickly as did monolinguals on the fifth presentation (in Experiment 2) and classified them (as human made or natural) as quickly and accurately as did monolinguals (in Experiment 1). In addition, bilinguals retrieved English picture names more quickly if they knew the name in both Spanish and English (on the basis of a translation test that bilinguals completed after the timed tasks), and monolingual response times for the same materials suggested that this finding was not obtained simply because names that were easier to translate were easier in general. These findings suggest that bilinguals differ from monolinguals at a postconceptual processing level, that implicit activation of lexical representations in the nontarget language can facilitate retrieval in the target language, and that being bilingual is analogous to having a lexicon full of lower frequency words, relative to monolinguals. IS - 7 JF - Mem Cognit SN - 0090-502X AD - Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0949, USA. tgollan@ucsd.edu EP - 1234 TI - Bilingualism affects picture naming but not picture classification. VL - 33 SP - 1220 KW - bilingual KW - bilingualism KW - classification KW - naming KW - picture N1 - The study is very simple and clear. The results are also clear. bilingual disadvantage- Some studies suggest that achieving and maintaining proficient bilingualism does come with a subtle cost to the dominant language. Bilinguals named fewer pictures in verbal fluent task and more TOT etc. Two possible explanation- cross-language interference and weaker links between semantics and lexical system. Method- participants: English dominant or equivalent Spanish-English bilingual & English monolingual. Picture naming and classification Repeatition in picture naming Results- Disadvantage exists on picture naming task, i.e., more slowly and with more errors in bilingual, but not on picture classification task. This disadvantage survives across five repeatition. AU - Gollan, TH AU - Montoya, RI AU - Fennema-Notestine, C AU - Morris, SK PY - 2005/10// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16532855 ER -