Psycholinguistics and Bilingualism

​Psycholinguistics and Bilingualism

Larissa Tatiana Rico Buitrago​

​Our guiding questions:

​1. How does psycholinguistics contribute to the understanding of the concept of bilingualism?

2. What aspects of psycholinguistics can be useful in our idea of thesis?​

Some text here about the topic of discussion

Where is “language” in the bilingual brain?

​Same mechanisms

​Abstract dictionary in the mind.

​Switch?

​Lexical decision vs Lexical Access tasks

​Short vs Long

​Disorder

​Active system

​Internalized knowledge

​Access and retrieval

​Shift: Proficiency, Task, situation.

​Calling words.

​Identical activation

​Comprehension Tasks

​​Production tasks

Open Ended

Lexical decision tasks and Lexical Access Tasks differ because...

Multiple Choice

In the lexical decision tasks the bilingual's languages compete for selection, for example when naming images. Meanwhile, in the lexical access task, a person is presented, on each trial, with a target string of letters, and must judge whether the target string is a correctly spelled word in English (or some other reference language).

• True

• False

​Top-down

​Bottom-up

1. ​How bilinguals keep from producing both of their languages at the same time when this isn’t their intention​.

2. Supervisory attentional system (SAS)​.

3. the activation or inhibition of schemas is what regulates language selection.

1. ​Oriented toward comprehension​.

2. Feedback - language production.

3. Integrated Lexicon. ​

​Top-down

​Bottom-up

1. ​Conceptual Level - Lexical Level

2. Connection:

3. L1 lexicon and conceptual memory​

​Top-down

​Bottom-up

1. ​Oriented toward comprehension​.

2. Feedback - language production.

3. Integrated Lexicon. ​

Multiple Select

What models are Top-down?

• Inhibitory Control Model

• Revised Hierarchical Model

• BIA+ Model

​Memory

Match

Match the following pairs

• Declarative Memory (Semantic)

• Declarative Memory (Episodic)

• Procedural Memory

• Working Memory

To mention the types of memory

To recall what you got on your last birthday.

How to speak grammatically correct.

Learning how to spell a word for the first time.

• To mention the types of memory

• To recall what you got on your last birthday.

• How to speak grammatically correct.

• Learning how to spell a word for the first time.