Cross-Language Translation Priming Asymmetry with Chinese-English Bilinguals: A Test of the Sense Model

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• 作者：Baoguo Chen (1)
  Huixia Zhou (1)
  Yiwen Gao (1)
  Susan Dunlap (2)
  
• 关键词：Cross ; linguistic priming asymmetry ; Sense Model ; Second language
• 刊名：Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：June 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：43
• 期：3
• 页码：225-240
• 全文大小：538 KB
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• 作者单位：Baoguo Chen (1)
  Huixia Zhou (1)
  Yiwen Gao (1)
  Susan Dunlap (2)
  
  1. School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, 19 Xin Jie Kou Wai Street, Beijing, 100875, China
  2. Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  
• ISSN：1573-6555

文摘

The present study aimed to test the Sense Model of cross-linguistic masked translation priming asymmetry, proposed by Finkbeiner et al. (J Mem Lang 51:1鈥?2, 2004), by manipulating the number of senses that bilingual participants associated with words from both languages. Three lexical decision experiments were conducted with Chinese-English bilinguals. In Experiment 1, polysemous L2 words and their L1 Chinese single-sense translation equivalents were selected as primes and targets. In Experiment 2, single-sense L1 words and their L2 translation equivalents with polysemous senses severed as primes and targets. We found translation priming effects in the L1鈥揕2 direction, but not in the L2鈥揕1 direction. In Experiment 3, presentation time of the L2 priming stimulus was prolonged, and significant translation priming effects were observed in the L2鈥揕1 direction. These findings suggest that the Sense Model does not adequately explain cross-language translation priming asymmetry. The sense numbers of primes and targets, as well as the activation proportion of these senses between them, were possibly not the primary reason for cross-language translation priming asymmetry. The revised hierarchical model (Kroll and Stewart in J Mem Lang 33:149鈥?74, 1994) and the BIA+ model (Dijkstra and van Heuven in Bilingualism Lang Cognit 5:175鈥?97, 2002) better explain the cross-language translation priming asymmetry we found.