Two words, one meaning: evidence of automatic co-activation of translation equivalents.
Two words, one meaning: evidence of automatic co-activation of translation equivalents.
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00188
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Carreiras M
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作者：
Dimitropoulou M;Duñabeitia JA;Carreiras M
对翻译过程的研究为双语者如何在一个头脑和一个大脑中协商来自两种语言的单词的表征提供了重要的见解。到目前为止的证据表明，即使翻译没有任何形式上的重叠(即非同源词)，甚至当其中之一被潜意识地呈现时，即在掩饰的启动条件下，翻译等值仍然有效地激活了彼此及其共同的概念。在对不平衡双语者的掩蔽翻译启动效应的词汇决策研究中，出现了一个非常稳定的模式：在优势翻译方向(L1)到非优势翻译方向(L2)上的影响要比在非优势翻译方向上的大，反之亦然。有趣的是，当测试同时和平衡的双语者时，这种不对称性消失了，这表明双语者的语言特征可能决定了跨语言词汇-语义激活的模式跨越第二语言学习轨迹。本研究旨在检测二语熟练程度是否是将词汇决定任务中获得的翻译的非对称跨语言激活转化为对称的关键变量。考察了三组不平衡的希腊语-英语双语者的非同源掩蔽翻译启动效应，他们的母语水平完全不同。虽然L2水平的提高导致了整体L2水平的提高，但三组的掩蔽翻译启动效应几乎是相同的，在所有情况下都产生了显著的但不对称的影响(即，L1 → L2比L2 → L1翻译方向的影响更大)。这些发现表明，翻译水平在中级水平上并不影响掩蔽启动效应，而且需要一个与母语水平相当的水平才能产生对称效应。此外，它们还对跨语言词汇-语义链接的发展机制的运作构成了重要的制约。
Research on the processing of translations offers important insights on how bilinguals negotiate the representation of words from two languages in one mind and one brain. Evidence so far has shown that translation equivalents effectively activate each other as well as their shared concept even when translations lack of any formal overlap (i.e., non-cognates) and even when one of them is presented subliminally, namely under masked priming conditions. In the lexical decision studies testing masked translation priming effects with unbalanced bilinguals a remarkably stable pattern emerges: larger effects in the dominant (L1) to the non-dominant (L2) translation direction, than vice versa. Interestingly, this asymmetry vanishes when simultaneous and balanced bilinguals are tested, suggesting that the linguistic profile of the bilinguals could be determining the pattern of cross-language lexico-semantic activation across the L2 learning trajectory. The present study aims to detect whether L2 proficiency is the critical variable rendering the otherwise asymmetric cross-language activation of translations obtained in the lexical decision task into symmetric. Non-cognate masked translation priming effects were examined with three groups of Greek (L1)–English (L2) unbalanced bilinguals, differing exclusively at their level of L2 proficiency. Although increased L2 proficiency led to improved overall L2 performance, masked translation priming effects were virtually identical across the three groups, yielding in all cases significant but asymmetric effects (i.e., larger effects in the L1 → L2 than in the L2 → L1 translation direction). These findings show that proficiency does not modulate masked translation priming effects at intermediate levels, and that a native-like level of L2 proficiency is needed for symmetric effects to emerge. They furthermore, pose important constraints on the operation of the mechanisms underlying the development of cross-language lexico-semantic links.
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影响因子：
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