The Effect of the Non-task Language When Trilingual People Use Two Languages in a Language Switching Experiment
This study investigated the effect of non-task language in a language switching experiment. Non-task language refers to participants’ languages (regardless of proficiency level) that are not used in any trials throughout the experiment. We recruited 60 Tibetan-Chinese-English trilinguals (12th-grade...
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| description | This study investigated the effect of non-task language in a language switching experiment. Non-task language refers to participants’ languages (regardless of proficiency level) that are not used in any trials throughout the experiment. We recruited 60 Tibetan-Chinese-English trilinguals (12th-grade high school students with a median age of 17) to perform a lexical decision (word vs. non-word) task in only two of their languages. We repeated the experiment three times to present each language pair once. In each experiment, the participants were divided into two groups that significantly contrasted with each other in their non-task language while remaining comparable in the two task languages. Response time (RT) and error rate (ER) have been examined to evaluate task performance. The interaction between task performance and the participants’ proficiency in the non-task language was also examined. The results showed anull effect of language switching. In addition, the effect of the non-task language was not found. These results were interpreted with reference to the main models of bilingual visual word recognition and the role of orthography specificity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1fb7701777c048a796e39f9837df85e92022-12-22T01:03:35ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782020-04-011110.3389/fpsyg.2020.00754516196The Effect of the Non-task Language When Trilingual People Use Two Languages in a Language Switching ExperimentJianlin ChenHong LiuThis study investigated the effect of non-task language in a language switching experiment. Non-task language refers to participants’ languages (regardless of proficiency level) that are not used in any trials throughout the experiment. We recruited 60 Tibetan-Chinese-English trilinguals (12th-grade high school students with a median age of 17) to perform a lexical decision (word vs. non-word) task in only two of their languages. We repeated the experiment three times to present each language pair once. In each experiment, the participants were divided into two groups that significantly contrasted with each other in their non-task language while remaining comparable in the two task languages. Response time (RT) and error rate (ER) have been examined to evaluate task performance. The interaction between task performance and the participants’ proficiency in the non-task language was also examined. The results showed anull effect of language switching. In addition, the effect of the non-task language was not found. These results were interpreted with reference to the main models of bilingual visual word recognition and the role of orthography specificity.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00754/fulltrilingualslanguage switchinglanguage comprehensioninhibitiontask and non-task language |
| spellingShingle | Jianlin Chen Hong Liu The Effect of the Non-task Language When Trilingual People Use Two Languages in a Language Switching Experiment Frontiers in Psychology trilinguals language switching language comprehension inhibition task and non-task language |
| title | The Effect of the Non-task Language When Trilingual People Use Two Languages in a Language Switching Experiment |
| title_full | The Effect of the Non-task Language When Trilingual People Use Two Languages in a Language Switching Experiment |
| title_fullStr | The Effect of the Non-task Language When Trilingual People Use Two Languages in a Language Switching Experiment |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Effect of the Non-task Language When Trilingual People Use Two Languages in a Language Switching Experiment |
| title_short | The Effect of the Non-task Language When Trilingual People Use Two Languages in a Language Switching Experiment |
| title_sort | effect of the non task language when trilingual people use two languages in a language switching experiment |
| topic | trilinguals language switching language comprehension inhibition task and non-task language |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00754/full |
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