{"pk":33034,"title":"Using Non-Cognate Interlexical Homographs to Study Bilingual Memory Organization","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Non-cognate French-English homographs, i.e., identical \nlexical items with distinct meanings in French and in \nEnglish, such as pain, four, main, etc., are used to study the \norganization of bilingual memory. Bilingual lexical access \nis initially shown to be compatible with a parallel search \nthrough independent lexicons, where the search speed \nthrough each lexicon depends on the level of activation of \nthe associated language. Particular attention is paid to \nreaction times to \"unbalanced\" homographs, i.e., \nhomographs with a high frequency in one language and a \nlow frequency in the other. It is claimed that the \nindependent dual-lexicon model is functionally equivalent to \nan activation-based competitive-access model that can be \nused to account for priming data that the dual-lexicon model \nhas difficulty handling.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"17","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8j84g8j3","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Robert","middle_name":"M .","last_name":"French","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universite de Liege","department":""},{"first_name":"Clark","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ohnesorge","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1995-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33034/galley/24096/download/"}]}