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In various English lexical decision tasks (LDTs), bi-/multilinguals have evinced shorter response times (RTs) for cognates (i.e., words with the same meaning in two languages, e.g., the Dutch-English ) and longer RTs for interlingual homographs (IHs; words with distinct meanings in two languages, e.g., the Dutch-English ) compared to monolingual controls (e.g., Biloushchenko, 2017). This suggests that multilinguals automatically activate lexical representations from multiple languages (Dijkstra et al., 1998). To further investigate language (non-)selectivity, in our English LDTs, we compare the processing of cognates and IHs to intralingual words that are similar but only exist in English (i.e., cognates to metonyms like , which can refer to the animal and the closely-related sense “chicken meat”, and IHs to homonyms like , which has two meanings: “baseball bat” and “nocturnal flying animal”). Half of our cognates and IHs only exist in our native Dutch participants’ non-native languages (English-French) to avoid any potentially confounding effects of the supposed “special status” (Midgley et al., 2011) of L1. Significant inhibition was found for homonyms and significant facilitation for metonyms and native (Dutch-English) cognates but not for non-native (English-French) cognates. These results are discussed in relation to the language non-selective hypothesis (Dijkstra et al., 1998).

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2024-12-16
2025-01-20

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Intralingual and interlingual effects in a pure language list
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  • Article Type: Research Article
Keywords: multilingualism ; language (non-)selective lexical access ; non-native language processing ; lexical decision task

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