Semantic priming effects and lexical access in English as L3

Authors

  • Pâmela Freitas Pereira Toassi Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Mailce Borges Mota Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v23i46.33581

Keywords:

lexical access, multilinguals, priming effect, picture-naming task.

Abstract

We report an experiment using a picture-naming task within the masked priming paradigm to examine lexical access in English as a third language. Participants were assigned to one of three groups: a control group, consisting of native speakers of English, and two experimental groups, one consisting of speakers of English as L2 and the other consisting of speakers of German as L2 and English as L3. Participants of the two experimental groups were native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese. All participants performed a picture-naming task in English in which pictures were preceded by a masked prime word in the target language (English), in the native language (Brazilian Portuguese) or in the second language (German). The results indicate some interference from the participants’ second language in the production of their third language (English), favoring the view that lexical access of multilinguals is qualitatively different from that of bilinguals and monolinguals.

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Article in English.

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.2018n46a1133

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Author Biographies

Pâmela Freitas Pereira Toassi, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Professora Adjunta do Departamento de Estudos de Língua Inglesa, suas Literaturas e Tradução (DELILT) e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução da Universidade Federal do Ceara (UFC). Coordena o grupo de pesquisa Processamento da Linguagem de Bilíngues e Multilíngues.

Mailce Borges Mota, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Professora do Departamento de Língua e Literatura Estrangeiras da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Na mesma instituição, é membro do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Inglês e Coordena o Laboratório da Linguagem e Processos Cognitivos.

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Published

2018-08-30

How to Cite

Toassi, P. F. P., & Mota, M. B. (2018). Semantic priming effects and lexical access in English as L3. Gragoatá, 23(46), 354-373. https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v23i46.33581

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 46 (2018): Language: cognition and uses

Section

Language Articles

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