Journal article
Performance of bilinguals in a picture-word interference task
Abstract
The picture-word interference task was administered to Spanish-English adults in order to determine whether the lexicons of bilinguals are integrated or whether words are stored and accessed separately in semantic memory. Pictures were printed with Spanish words naming other objects, with English translations, and with X's. Spanish and English distractor words were observed to slow down picture naming in both languages. Also, an interaction was …
Authors
Ehri LC; Ryan EB
Journal
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 285–302
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
May 1980
DOI
10.1007/bf01067243
ISSN
0090-6905