The Semantic-Priming Experimental Study On The Bilingual Representation In Mongolians

Bilingual phenomenon is an important subject in cognitive psychology researches. Be a multiracial nation, the development of economy make more and more national minorities started get in touch with and study the Chinese culture and the language. Particularly pushed by the reform, English study also becomes the request of the ages and the demand of the race developments. Under such social condition, more and more national minorities become the bilingual even master many kinds of languages.This research follows typical priming effect experimental paradigm, to explore the characters about inter-language and cross-language bilingual representation in the bilingual Mongolians。At first, to see if there is inter-language priming effect in Mongolian, Chinese and English. And explore the influencing factors in Chinese and English representation. Then, explore cross-language priming effect. The results show:(1) There is inter-language semantic priming effect in English, Chinese and Mongolian.(2) There is no difference between Mongolians and Chinese about the representation of Chinese.(3) The familiarity and the acquisition age of a language influence the English representation in the bilingual Mongolians. (4)Culture will influence the semantic priming effect through the choice of experiment material.(5)The language of Mongolian and Chinese exist two-direction priming effect on the bilingual Mongolians.(6) There is cross-language priming effect between ongolian-English, no effect between English-Mongolian.(7) There is cross-language priming effect between Chinese-English, no effect between English-Chinese.(8) For the bilingual Mongolians, Mongolian and Chinese both are the ascendant language. they are balance.