Cross-language activation of idiom meanings
Evidence from French– Vietnamese– and Indonesian–English bilinguals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21697590 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Debra Jared (0000-0002-5818-4119, Western University, corresponding author), P V Nguyen (Western University), Pearley Nguyen, Alyssa Grant-Pereira (Western University), Qamara Rizkyana (Western University), Mirrah Maziyah Mohamed (0000-0002-3164-3805, Western University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 363-376 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bilingualism Language and Cognition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1366-7289 • E-ISSN: 1469-1841 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1366728923000512 |
| OpenAlex | W4385348191 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 41 |
The aim of the present study was to determine whether bilinguals activate the figurative meaning of an idiom that is specific to one language when they are exposed to its translation in their other language. We used a cross-modal priming task in which participants heard L2 English sentences that ended with an idiom translated from their L1. They then saw a visually presented stimulus that was either related to the meaning of the L1 idiom, a matched control word, or a nonword, and made a lexical decision. Three experiments were run, each with a different group of bilinguals (French–English, Vietnamese–English, and Indonesian–English), and each with a monolingual English control group. In all three studies, the effect of relatedness for bilinguals and monolinguals differed, demonstrating cross-language activation of idiom meanings. Evidence was obtained that suggested that culture-specific information in idioms influenced processing
Cognition · Indonesian · Lexical decision task · Linguistics · Literal and figurative language · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Vietnamese · Categorization, perception, and language · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning
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| Citations per year | 0.67 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |