This very human behaviour has attracted much attention from philosophers to physicians throughout history and from psychologists in modern times.įrom an evolutionary perspective, bilingualism can be perceived as a complex and a multifaceted process that involves the interaction of cultures, expression of social experience, and history of a particular people as well as the mechanism of interaction of languages (Roberts, 2013). In this respect, a widely accepted definition of bilingualism is ‘ both regular use and communicative competence’ in L1 (first language, native language, mother tongue) and L2 (second language) (Francis, 1999, p. bilingualism, because of contact with other communities, immigration and trade has been reported since antique times dating back to the Sumerians (Woods, 2006).
The additional ability to speak more than one language, i.e. The ability to use spoken language to communicate with one another is a unique, inherent human characteristic that infants acquire without much effort. The implications for these findings is discussed within the current bilingual theoretical models. The results show that the magnitude of the semantic priming effect was determined by L2 proficiency. Monolingual Russian speakers and bilingual Russian (L1)-English (L2) speaking university students were asked to name target words under related or unrelated conditions. A review of the literature shows that there are currently no theoretical frameworks that explain Russian monolingual or Russian (L1)-English (L2) bilingual storage or processing. The aim of the chapter is to address two key questions: 1) how the two languages of a bilingual are organised or stored and 2) how the two languages are processed. Semantic priming is typically used to examine semantic processing and refers to the phenomenon in which semantically related items (doctor-nurse) are processed faster and more accurately than semantically unrelated items (doctor-butter). AbstractIdentifying and exploring factors that influence bilingual language processing has been the topic of much psycholinguistic research.
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