Memory, Language, and Bilingualism: Theoretical and Applied Approaches

388 Pages·2012·2.237 MB·

by  Jeanette Altarriba, Ludmila Isurin

Memory, Language, and Bilingualism

The relationship between memory and language, and the topic of
bilingualism are important areas of research in both psychology and
linguistics and are grounded in cognitive and linguistic paradigms,
theories, and experimentation. This volume provides an integrated
theoretical/real-world approach to second language learning, use,
and processing from a cognitive perspective. A strong international
and interdisciplinary team of contributors present the results of vari-
ous explorations into bilingual language processing, from recent
advances in studies on bilingual memory, to studies on the role of the
brain in language processing and language forgetting. This is a strong
yet balanced combination of theoretical/overview contributions and
accounts of novel, original, empirical studies which will educate read-
ers on the relationship between theory, cognitive experimentation,
and data, and their role in understanding language learning and
practice.
jeanette altarriba is a Professor and Chair of Psychology in
the Department of Psychology, and Director of the Cognition and
Language Laboratory, at the University at Albany, State University of
New York (SUNY).
ludmila isurin is an Associate Professor of Second Language
Acquisition in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages
and Cultures at The Ohio State University.

Memory, Language, and

Bilingualism
Theoretical and Applied Approaches
Edited by
Jeanette Altarriba
and
Ludmila Isurin
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1. Bilingualism–Psychological aspects. 2. Cognition. 3. Memory.
4. Psycholinguistics. I. Altarriba, Jeanette, 1964– II. Isurin, Ludmila.
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Contents

List of figures page vii
List of tables ix
List of contributors x
Introduction 1
jeanette altarriba and ludmila isurin
1 Bilingual memory: structure, access, and processing 7
james bartolotti and viorica marian
2 Lexical competition in localist and distributed
connectionist models of L2 acquisition 48
ton dijkstra, femke haga, alex bijsterveld,
and ida sprinkhuizen-kuyper
3 Working memory and (second) language processing 74
arnaud szmalec, marc brysbaert, and
wouter duyck
4 Working memory in simultaneous interpreters 95
teresa m. signorelli and loraine obler
5 Using electrophysiological measures to track the
mapping of words to concepts in the bilingual brain:
a focus on translation 126
janet g. van hell and judith f. kroll
6 Age effects in L2 learning: comparing child and
adult learners’ performance on tests of implicit
and explicit memory 161
pavel trofimovich, sandra martin-chang,
and kyle levesque
7 Bilingualism, language, and aging 188
mira goral
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vi Contents
8 Crossovers and codeswitching in the investigation of
immigrant autobiographical memory 211
carmit altman, robert w. schrauf,
and joel walters
9 Linguistic relativity and bilingualism 236
panos athanasopoulos and
fraibet aveledo
10 Testing effects for novel word learning in
Chinese–English bilinguals 256
chi-shing tse and xiaoping pu
11 The lexicon in second language attrition: what
happens when the cat’s got your tongue? 291
kathleen bardovi-harlig and
david stringer
12 Memory and first language forgetting 319
ludmila isurin
13 Future research directions: bilingualism,
memory, and language 349
jeanette altarriba
Index 363
Figures

1.1 Baddeley’s Working Memory Model page 11
1.2 Kroll and Stewart’s Revised Hierarchical Model 25
1.3 Van Heuven, Dijkstra, and Grainger’s Bilingual
Interactive Activation Model 27
1.4 Dijkstra and van Heuven’s Bilingual Interactive
Activation Plus Model 28
1.5 Shook and Marian’s Bilingual Language Interaction
Network for Comprehension of Speech 29
1.6 Green’s Inhibitory Control Model 30
1.7 Li and Farkas’ Self-Organizing Model of
Bilingual Processing 31
2.1 The BIA+ framework of bilingual word recognition 53
2.2 The Bilingual Single Network Model 54
2.3 Processing of Dutch and English words by late
learners of English 59
2.4 Processing of Dutch and English words by early
Dutch–English bilinguals 59
2.5 Late learning of English words of different
frequency categories in BIA+ 60
2.6 The Revised Bilingual Single Network Model 63
2.7 Learning of Dutch and English words by late learners
of English relative to English monolinguals 64
2.8 Learning of Dutch and English words by early
Dutch–English bilinguals relative to
English monolinguals 65
2.9 Late learning of English words of different
frequency categories in RBSN 66
2.10 Processing by late Dutch–English bilinguals
of English translation equivalents with different
degrees of orthographic overlap with Dutch 67
2.11 Processing of English item types by late Dutch–English
bilinguals 67
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2.12 Processing of Dutch item types by late
Dutch–English bilinguals 67
4.1 Verbal working memory across the literature 97
4.2 WM in interpreters vs. non-interpreters across the literature 103
4.3 WM in interpreters vs. non-interpreters: auditory stimuli
across the literature 116
4.4 WM in interpreters vs. non-interpreters: print stimuli
across the literature 116
5.1 The Revised Hierarchical Model 128
5.2 An illustration of the N400 component in ERP waveforms 137
6.1 Proportion of explicit recall for the combined groups
of native English and French children and native English
and French adults as a function of exposure condition
(context vs. isolation) 177
6.2 Proportion of implicit word-stem completion for the
combined groups of native English children and adults and
native French children and adults as a function of exposure
condition (context vs. isolation vs. control) 179
8.1 Distribution of memories in monolingual mature adults 213
8.2 Distribution of memories across the lifespan from
both English and Hebrew sessions for
English–Hebrew participants 221
8.3 Distribution of memories during the English and Hebrew
sessions for 12 English–Hebrew adult bilinguals 222
8.4 Distribution of memories of earlier immigrants/arrival
prior to age 30 and later immigrants/arrival after age 30 223
8.5 Distribution of memories in English for English–Hebrew
bilinguals who immigrated before age 30 and for those
who immigrated after age 30 224
8.6 Distribution of memories in Hebrew for English–Hebrew
bilinguals who immigrated before age 30 and for those who
immigrated after age 30 225
8.7 Mean number of same-language and crossover memories
in L1 and L2 sessions/cue words among English–Hebrew
bilinguals 226
10.1 Modified Revised Hierarchical Model of bilingual
memory 264
10.2 Mean proportion of Swahili–English word pairs recalled
in repeated study and repeated testing conditions across
the 12 cycles in the acquisition phase 271
10.3 Scatterplot of testing effect and L1/L2 proficiency 276
12.1 Frequency effect 331
12.2 Contact with L1 332