Representation of colour concepts in bilingual cognition: The case of Japanese blues
Representation of colour concepts in bilingual cognition: The case of Japanese blues
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DOI：
10.1017/s1366728909990046
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Sasaki, Miho
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作者：
Athanasopoulos, Panos;Damjanovic, Ljubica;Sasaki, Miho
先前的研究表明，颜色的词汇编码影响对颜色的分类感知，使得参与者更有可能将两种颜色评定为更相似，如果它们属于同一语言类别（Roberson等人，2000年，2005年）。最近的研究表明，希腊-英语双语者对范畴内和跨范畴刺激对的感知随着语义记忆中相关颜色词的可用性以及在说L2的国家花费的时间的变化而变化（Athanasopoulos，2009）。本文扩展了Athanasopoulos（2009）的研究，考察了日英双语者对颜色的认知加工。与希腊语一样，日语与英语的区别在于它有一个额外的单音节词“浅蓝色”（mizuiro）。本文的目的是探讨语言和语言外变量在多大程度上调节了日英双语者对蓝色/浅蓝色区分的敏感性。结果表明，那些使用英语更频繁的双语者区分蓝色和浅蓝色刺激对不如那些使用日语更频繁。这些结果表明，双语认知可能是动态的和灵活的，在这种情况下，它类似于任何单语规范的程度，从根本上说是一个语言使用频率的问题。
Previous studies demonstrate that lexical coding of colour influences categorical perception of colour, such that participants are more likely to rate two colours to be more similar if they belong to the same linguistic category (Roberson et al., 2000, 2005). Recent work shows changes in Greek-English bilinguals' perception of within and cross-category stimulus pairs as a function of the availability of the relevant colour terms in semantic memory, and the amount of time spent in the L2-speaking country (Athanasopoulos, 2009). The present paper extends Athanasopoulos' (2009) investigation by looking at cognitive processing of colour in Japanese-English bilinguals. Like Greek, Japanese contrasts with English in that it has an additional monolexemic term for 'light blue' (mizuiro). The aim of the paper is to examine to what degree linguistic and extralinguistic variables modulate Japanese-English bilinguals' sensitivity to the blue/light blue distinction. Results showed that those bilinguals who used English more frequently distinguished blue and light blue stimulus pairs less well than those who used Japanese more frequently. These results suggest that bilingual cognition may be dynamic and flexible, as the degree to which it resembles that of either monolingual norm is, in this case, fundamentally a matter of frequency of language use.