Semantic convergence in the bilingual lexicon
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چکیده
Two studies investigated how convergence between linguistic representations in Dutch-French bilinguals affects the centers and boundaries of lexical categories for common household objects. In Study 1, correlations between typicality ratings for roughly corresponding categories were higher for bilinguals in their two languages than for monolinguals in each language, indicating that bilingual prototypes converge. In Study 2, fewer dimensions were needed to linearly separate bilingual than monolingual categories, and bilinguals showed fewer violations of similarity-based naming. Implications for theories of the bilingual lexicon are discussed.
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