{"pk":32000,"title":"Using orthographic neighborhoods of interlexical nonwords to support an interactive-activation model of bilingual memory","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Certain models of bilingual memory based on parallel, activation-driven self-terminating search through independent lexicons can reconcile both interlingual priming data (which seem to support an overlapping organization of bilingual memory) and homograph recognition data (which seem to fevor a separate-access dual-lexicon approach). But the dual-lexicon model makes a prediction regarding recognition times for nonwords that is not supported by the data. The nonwords that violate this prediction are produced by changing a single letter of non-cognate interlexical homographs (words like <i>appoint</i>, <i>legs</i>, and <i>mince</i> that are words in both French and English, but have completely different meanings in each language), thereby producing regular nonwords in both languages (e.g., <i>appaint</i>, <i>ligs</i>, <i>monce</i>). These nonwords are then classified according to the comparative sizes of their orthographic neighborhoods in each language. An interactive-activation model, unlike the dual-lexicon model, can account for reaction times to these nonwords in a relatively straightforward manner. For this reason, it is argued that an interactive-activation model is the more appropriate of the two models of bilingual memory.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Paper Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3ds8m0dn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Robert","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"French","name_suffix":"","institution":"Psychology Department, Universite de Liege","department":""},{"first_name":"Clark","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chnesorge","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Psychology, Middlebury College","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1996-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/32000/galley/23065/download/"}]}