Thinking-for-Speaking in Early and Late Bilinguals

Autor/inn/en	Lai, Vicky Tzuyin; Rodriguez, Gabriela Garrido; Narasimhan, Bhuvana
Titel	Thinking-for-Speaking in Early and Late Bilinguals
Quelle	In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 17 (2014) 1, S.139-152 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1366-7289
DOI	10.1017/S1366728913000151
Schlagwörter	Motion; Classification; Bilingualism; Language Processing; English (Second Language); Spanish; Second Language Learning; Language Acquisition; Monolingualism; Control Groups; Task Analysis; Decision Making; Preferences; Verbs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bewegungsablauf; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Bilingualismus; Sprachverarbeitung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Spanisch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Aufgabenanalyse; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung
Abstract	When speakers describe motion events using different languages, they subsequently classify those events in language-specific ways (Gennari, Sloman, Malt & Fitch, 2002). Here we ask if bilingual speakers flexibly shift their event classification preferences based on the language in which they verbally encode those events. English--Spanish bilinguals and monolingual controls described motion events in either Spanish or English. Subsequently they judged the similarity of the motion events in a triad task. Bilinguals tested in Spanish and Spanish monolinguals were more likely to make similarity judgments based on the path of motion versus bilinguals tested in English and English monolinguals. The effect is modulated in bilinguals by the age of acquisition of the second language. Late bilinguals based their judgments on path more often when Spanish was used to describe the motion events versus English. Early bilinguals had a path preference independent of the language in use. These findings support "thinking-for-speaking" (Slobin, 1996) in late bilinguals. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10