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    "pk": 25492,
    "title": "A computational model of bilingual semantic convergence",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Patterns of object naming often differ between languages, but\nbilingual speakers develop convergent naming patterns in\ntheir two languages that are distinct from those of\nmonolingual speakers of each language. This convergence\nappears to reflect dynamic interactions between lexical\nrepresentations for the two languages. In this study, we\npresent a self-organizing neural network model to simulate\nsemantic convergence in the bilingual lexicon and investigate\nmechanisms underlying semantic convergence. Our results\ndemonstrate that connections between two languages can be\nestablished through the simultaneous activations of related\nwords in both languages, and these connections between two\nlanguages pull the two lexicons toward each other. These\nresults suggest that connections between words in the\nbilingual lexicon play a major role in bilinguals’ semantic\nconvergence. The model provides a foundation for exploring\nhow various input variables will affect bilingual patterns of\noutput.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "object naming; lexical categories; modeling; selforganizing\nmap; bilingual lexicon"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xm254gt",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Shin-Yi",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Fang",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Benjamin",
            "middle_name": "D",
            "last_name": "Zinszer",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Barbara",
            "middle_name": "C",
            "last_name": "Malt",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Psychology, Lehigh University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Ping",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Li",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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