Lexical access in bilinguals: Effects of vocabulary size and executive control Export

@article{citeulike:3452165, abstract = {We report the results of two studies investigating lexical access in bilinguals. In Study 1, monolinguals performed better than bilinguals on tests of naming and letter fluency, but not on category fluency. When vocabulary size was considered, most of the effects disappeared or were reduced. In Study 2, a larger group of bilinguals was studied to compare the effect of vocabulary size, and a more restrictive version of the letter fluency task was used to increase executive processing involvement. In this case, bilinguals with matched vocabulary scores outperformed monolinguals on letter fluency, and bilinguals with lower vocabulary scores performed at the same level as monolinguals. The results are discussed in terms of the contributions of vocabulary size and executive control to performance on lexical retrieval tasks.}, author = {Bialystok, E. and Craik, F. and Luk, G.}, citeulike-article-id = {3452165}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2007.07.001}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0911604407000449}, doi = {10.1016/j.jneuroling.2007.07.001}, issn = {09116044}, journal = {Journal of Neurolinguistics}, keywords = {bilingual, control, executivefunction, l2, letterfluency, psycholinguistics, vocabularysize}, month = {November}, number = {6}, pages = {522--538}, posted-at = {2008-10-30 12:26:14}, priority = {2}, title = {Lexical access in bilinguals: Effects of vocabulary size and executive control}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2007.07.001}, volume = {21}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3452165 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3452165 N2 - We report the results of two studies investigating lexical access in bilinguals. In Study 1, monolinguals performed better than bilinguals on tests of naming and letter fluency, but not on category fluency. When vocabulary size was considered, most of the effects disappeared or were reduced. In Study 2, a larger group of bilinguals was studied to compare the effect of vocabulary size, and a more restrictive version of the letter fluency task was used to increase executive processing involvement. In this case, bilinguals with matched vocabulary scores outperformed monolinguals on letter fluency, and bilinguals with lower vocabulary scores performed at the same level as monolinguals. The results are discussed in terms of the contributions of vocabulary size and executive control to performance on lexical retrieval tasks. IS - 6 JF - Journal of Neurolinguistics SN - 09116044 EP - 538 TI - Lexical access in bilinguals: Effects of vocabulary size and executive control VL - 21 SP - 522 KW - bilingual KW - control KW - executivefunction KW - l2 KW - letterfluency KW - psycholinguistics KW - vocabularysize AU - Bialystok, E AU - Craik, F AU - Luk, G PY - 2008/11// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2007.07.001 ER -