Effect of bilingualism on colour perception : is categorical perception specific to each language system or altered and shared in one unified system?
This study seeks to gain a deeper understanding on how language is represented in a bilingual’s brain by investigating on colour boundaries that exist only in either language of the selected language pair. Twenty Korean-English bilinguals took part in the study and the results showed that categorica...
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| author | Er, Pei Yi |
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| description | This study seeks to gain a deeper understanding on how language is represented in a bilingual’s brain by investigating on colour boundaries that exist only in either language of the selected language pair. Twenty Korean-English bilinguals took part in the study and the results showed that categorical perception (CP) effect was still present under the non-target language primed condition. CP is therefore, not specific to each language system. The present findings also suggest that there exists a unified system where accessibility of lexical retrieval is dependent on frequency of word usage and immersion in a L2 speaking country. Furthermore, the acquisition of a second language may cause L1 attrition, weakening the strength of the word-referent mapping. Nevertheless, the weakened mapping did not result in the loss of a CP boundary in the subjects of this study. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/619392019-12-10T14:36:57Z Effect of bilingualism on colour perception : is categorical perception specific to each language system or altered and shared in one unified system? Er, Pei Yi School of Humanities and Social Sciences Alice Chan DRNTU::Humanities This study seeks to gain a deeper understanding on how language is represented in a bilingual’s brain by investigating on colour boundaries that exist only in either language of the selected language pair. Twenty Korean-English bilinguals took part in the study and the results showed that categorical perception (CP) effect was still present under the non-target language primed condition. CP is therefore, not specific to each language system. The present findings also suggest that there exists a unified system where accessibility of lexical retrieval is dependent on frequency of word usage and immersion in a L2 speaking country. Furthermore, the acquisition of a second language may cause L1 attrition, weakening the strength of the word-referent mapping. Nevertheless, the weakened mapping did not result in the loss of a CP boundary in the subjects of this study. Bachelor of Arts 2014-12-08T05:01:42Z 2014-12-08T05:01:42Z 2014 2014 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/61939 en Nanyang Technological University 48 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Humanities Er, Pei Yi Effect of bilingualism on colour perception : is categorical perception specific to each language system or altered and shared in one unified system? |
| title | Effect of bilingualism on colour perception : is categorical perception specific to each language system or altered and shared in one unified system? |
| title_full | Effect of bilingualism on colour perception : is categorical perception specific to each language system or altered and shared in one unified system? |
| title_fullStr | Effect of bilingualism on colour perception : is categorical perception specific to each language system or altered and shared in one unified system? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effect of bilingualism on colour perception : is categorical perception specific to each language system or altered and shared in one unified system? |
| title_short | Effect of bilingualism on colour perception : is categorical perception specific to each language system or altered and shared in one unified system? |
| title_sort | effect of bilingualism on colour perception is categorical perception specific to each language system or altered and shared in one unified system |
| topic | DRNTU::Humanities |
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