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Convergence in the Bilingual Lexicon: A Pre-registered Replication of Previous Studies

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Title
Convergence in the Bilingual Lexicon: A Pre-registered Replication of Previous Studies
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Frontiers in Psychology, January 2017
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02081
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Anne White, Barbara C. Malt, Gert Storms

Abstract

Naming patterns of bilinguals have been found to converge and form a new intermediate language system from elements of both the bilinguals' languages. This converged naming pattern differs from the monolingual naming patterns of both a bilingual's languages. We conducted a pre-registered replication study of experiments addressing the question whether there is a convergence between a bilingual's both lexicons. The replication used an enlarged set of stimuli of common household containers, providing generalizability, and more reliable representations of the semantic domain. Both an analysis at the group-level and at the individual level of the correlations between naming patterns reject the two-pattern hypothesis that poses that bilinguals use two monolingual-like naming patterns, one for each of their two languages. However, the results of the original study and the replication comply with the one-pattern hypothesis, which poses that bilinguals converge the naming patterns of their two languages and form a compromise. Since this convergence is only partial the naming pattern in bilinguals corresponds to a moderate version of the one-pattern hypothesis. These findings are further confirmed by a representation of the semantic domain in a multidimensional space and the finding of shorter distances between bilingual category centers than monolingual category centers in this multidimensional space both in the original and in the replication study.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 29%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 14%
Researcher 3 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 10%
Student > Bachelor 1 5%
Other 3 14%
Unknown 3 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 8 38%
Linguistics 4 19%
Social Sciences 2 10%
Computer Science 1 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 4 19%
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