title: Language nonselective access to phonological representations: evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals.
abstract: Four experiments with Chinese-English bilinguals were conducted in order to investigate the hypothesis of language nonselective access to an integrated lexicon for bilingual phonological representations. Results of a naming task (in Experiments 1 and 2) and a lexical decision task (in Experiments 3 and 4) showed homophone priming effects regardless of priming direction (English to Chinese, or Chinese to English) or English proficiency. Our findings are compatible with the BIA+ model of bilingual processing, provide further support for the hypothesis of language nonselective access to an integrated lexicon for bilingual phonological representations, and extend the hypothesis to language pairs with very different writing systems.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Key Lab of Applied Experimental Psychology, School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Huixia
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Baoguo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Meiying
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dunlap
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D019303:Multilingualism; D009275:Names; D010700:Phonetics; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D013334:Students; D014495:Universities; D014705:Verbal Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D014825:Vocabulary