Cognate facilitation in different-script trilinguals as a function of task demands.

IF 2.2 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY

Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI:10.1037/xlm0001442

Mariana Elias, Janet G van Hell, Anat Prior, Tamar Degani

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Abstract

The present study examined how Arabic-Hebrew-English trilinguals process double and triple cognate words in their third language (L3) across three different experiments. Utilizing the same set of critical cognate items, trilinguals completed a semantic relatedness task, a lexical decision task, or a sentence reading eye-tracking task. The results revealed a significant cognate facilitation effect in the semantic relatedness task, with no consistent differences in the magnitude of facilitation across double and triple cognates, suggesting that both L1 and L2 are activated during L3 processing. In contrast, no cognate facilitation was observed in the lexical decision or the sentence reading tasks. These results demonstrate that the cognate facilitation is task-dependent, varying with the degree to which meaning is activated, sentential context is available, and orthographic cues are involved. Critically, the study extends findings of phonologically mediated cross-language activation from bilinguals to trilinguals. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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不同文字三语的同源促进作用：任务需求的函数。

本研究通过三个不同的实验考察了阿拉伯语-希伯来语-英语三语者如何在他们的第三语言（L3）中处理双重和三重同源词。使用相同的关键同源词集，三语者完成了语义关联任务、词汇决策任务和句子阅读眼球追踪任务。结果表明，语义关联任务中同源词的促进作用显著，双同源词和三同源词的促进作用大小没有一致性差异，表明L1和L2在L3加工过程中都被激活。相比之下，在词汇决策和句子阅读任务中没有发现同源促进作用。这些结果表明，同源促进是任务依赖的，随着意义的激活程度、句子上下文的可用性和正字法线索的参与程度而变化。关键的是，该研究将语音介导的跨语言激活的发现从双语扩展到三语。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition 医学-心理学

CiteScore

4.30

自引率

3.80%

发文量

163

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition publishes studies on perception, control of action, perceptual aspects of language processing, and related cognitive processes.