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ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2024

Lexical pathway from L2 to L1 activation in intermediate proficient bilinguals: behavioral and ERP evidence.

Siqin Yang, Siyi Jiang, Minghu Jiang, Qian Guo

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Siqin YangSchool of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
Siyi JiangBeijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Minghu JiangCenter for Psychology and Cognitive Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Qian GuoDepartment of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

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Numerous studies have demonstrated that second language (L2) comprehension is often accompanied by activations in the first language (L1). Using both behavioral measurement and event-related potential (ERP), this study conducted two experiments to investigate whether a direct activation pathway exists from L2 lexical representation to L1 lexical representation (the lexical pathway) in intermediate proficient bilinguals. In Experiment 1, we designed a vowel letter search task on English word pairs, which enables bilinguals to prevent semantic priming in the first 300 ms processing stage after the words' onset. In Experiment 2, Mandarin-English bilinguals were recruited to complete this task on English word pairs with occasional first character repetition between the Chinese counterparts of a word pair. Results showed a significant main effect within both the P200 and N400 time windows, indicating the activation of bilinguals' L1 lexical representation during these intervals. However, the main effect of semantic relatedness was only significant in the N400 time window. These results suggest that bilinguals can activate their L1 lexical representation directly before engaging in conceptual representation. This finding supported a lexical pathway of activation from L2 lexical representation to L1 lexical representation during visual-word recognition in intermediate proficient bilinguals.

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activationbilingualcross-languageMandarin–Englishpathwayvisual-word recognition

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