Cognitive representation of colour in bilinguals: The case of Greek blues
Cognitive representation of colour in bilinguals: The case of Greek blues
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DOI：
10.1017/s136672890800388x
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
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3.6
通讯作者：
Athanasopoulos, Panos
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作者：
Athanasopoulos, Panos
最近的一些研究表明，使用语法和词汇类别不同的语言的双语者可能会将这些类别的认知表征转向第二语言的单语使用者的认知表征。当前的论文将这项研究扩展到不同双语水平的希腊语-英语双语者和英语单语者的颜色领域。 Greek 将颜色空间的蓝色区域区分为称为 ble 的较暗色调和称为 ghalazio 的较浅色调。结果表明，类别原型的语义转变随着双语水平和文化适应的变化而变化，而双语者判断类别内和跨类别刺激对之间感知相似性的方式在很大程度上取决于语义记忆中相关颜色术语的可用性，以及在母语国家度过的时间。这些结果表明，认知与特定语言类别的语义记忆以及母语国家的文化沉浸密切相关。
A number of recent studies demonstrate that bilinguals with languages that differ in grammatical and lexical categories may shift their cognitive representation of those categories towards that of monolingual speakers of their second language. The current paper extended that investigation to the domain of colour in Greek-English bilinguals with different levels of bilingualism, and English monolinguals. Greek differentiates the blue region of colour space into a darker shade called ble and a lighter shade called ghalazio. Results showed a semantic shift of category prototypes with level of bilingualism and acculturation, while the way bilinguals judged the perceptual similarity between within- and cross-category stimulus pairs depended strongly on the availability of the relevant colour terms in semantic memory, and the amount of time spent in the L2-speaking country. These results suggest that cognition is tightly linked to semantic memory for specific linguistic categories, and to cultural immersion in the L2-speaking country.