Reaction Time in Masked Semantic Priming Experiments with Persian vs. English Primes

Ali Akbar ANSARİN; Solmaz Saeeidi MANESH

doi:https://doi.org/10.32601/ejal.461028

Makale detayları

Reaction Time in Masked Semantic Priming Experiments with Persian vs. English Primes

Yazarlar:

Ali Akbar ANSARİN | Solmaz Saeeidi MANESH

Yayıncı:

Ece ZEHİR TOPKAYA

Ana Başlıklar:

Eğitim

Dergi:

Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics 2017 Vol.3 Issue 1, pp.25-35

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2017

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000705748

Sıklık:

Aylık

eISSN:

2149-1135

pISSN:

2149-1135

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32601/ejal.461028

Özet:

 


The psycholinguistics field has long been concerned with bilinguals’ mental lexicon; the way bilinguals

restore words in their mental lexicon and the way they retrieve them. So the representation of languages

in bilingual minds has been explored by many researchers within the field. And different researches have

led to different results. The more information regarding bilingual memory is acquired; better image

would be constructed about this knowledge representation. The present study is an attempt to

investigate if bilinguals share semantic features of their L1 and L2 using masked semantic priming

paradigm. In masked priming, the primes were presented for a very short time and they were covered by

a mask or a row of hash marks (####).Target-prime pairs addressed in the study were semantically

related words in two experiments. In both of the experiments target words were in English, but the

primes were in Persian in the first experiment and in English in the second. Reaction time of sixty

Persian-English bilinguals for these prompts was measured by DMDX software. Results showed that

semantic priming effect under masked conditions could not find in any of the experiments. The findings

indicate that bilinguals have shared semantic representation for two languages with different scripts

only for the cognate words. Results suggest that using semantically related words, for non-cognate words,in the process of language teaching is useful in advanced proficiency levels.

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Makale detayları

Reaction Time in Masked Semantic Priming Experiments with Persian vs. English Primes

Yazarlar: Ali Akbar ANSARİN | Solmaz Saeeidi MANESH

Yayıncı: Ece ZEHİR TOPKAYA

Ana Başlıklar: Eğitim

Dergi: Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics 2017 Vol.3 Issue 1, pp.25-35

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 3/2017

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000705748

Sıklık: Aylık

eISSN: 2149-1135

pISSN: 2149-1135

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32601/ejal.461028

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Ali Akbar ANSARİN | Solmaz Saeeidi MANESH

Yayıncı:

Ece ZEHİR TOPKAYA

Ana Başlıklar:

Eğitim

Dergi:

Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics 2017 Vol.3 Issue 1, pp.25-35

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2017

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000705748

Sıklık:

Aylık

eISSN:

2149-1135

pISSN:

2149-1135

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32601/ejal.461028