Orthographic specificity moderates comprehension-based switching costs: language-specific orthography can abolish or alter mixing and switch costs¶

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q2 i? Mixing costs in a bilingual lexical decision task were found only when word orthography was not unique to either language. → Mathieu Declerck & Andrea M. Philipp 2015

Evidence¶

Mathieu Declerck & Andrea M. Philipp 2015¶

Mathieu Declerck & Andrea M. Philipp. (2015). A review of control processes and their locus in language switching. Psychon Bull Rev. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-015-0836-1

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The review reports, citing Grainger and Beauvillain (1987), an English-French lexical decision study with mixed and pure language blocks, in which "mixing costs, but only when the orthography of the words was not unique" were found. Later work suggested language-specific orthography alone could drive responses without lexical recognition.

"They found mixing costs, but only when the orthography of the words was not unique for either English or French words."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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