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Phonology-based bilingual activation among different-script bilinguals?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2018

NAN JIANG
NAN JIANG*
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University of Maryland
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Address for correspondence: 3215 Jimenez Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742[email protected]
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Multilink developed by Dijkstra et al. (2018) is a computational model of monolingual and bilingual lexical access in comprehension and production. The non-selective activation of a bilingual's two languages is handled in the model by assuming that bilinguals have an integrated lexicon and that orthographic overlap between the input and the lexical representation drives lexical activation. Hence, an orthographic unit such as the letter T may activate words from multiple languages that contain the letter, resulting in simultaneous activation of multiple languages. This basic mechanism for explaining non-selective activation is similar between Multilink and its predecessors BIA and BIA+.

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , August 2019 , pp. 693 - 694
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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