Phonological Similarity Effect And Phonological Representation Of Chinese-Japanese Bilinguals

Most of the previous studies concerning the relationship of the bilingual mental lexiconfocused on whether mutual influence between different lexical levels exists, especiallywhether the phonological representation of bilingual mental lexicon is stored or accessed. Atthis point, there are two relatively independent models: one assumes that the phonology isstored independently and extracted selectively; but the other holds that it is stored jointly andextracted non-selectively. Some people set out a BIA+model which support non-selectiveopinion. According to this model, in the bilingual representation structure, not only thesemantics is shared, but also the phonology and character are. The non-selective opinion hasalready been proved in the related studies about those alphabetic languages. Here there isanother question: is there any phonological similarity effect in the complicatedChinese-Japanese bilingual mental lexicon?This study adopt priming experimental paradigm.Subjects were required to do namingtask lexical decision task etc. It aimed to explore whether any cross-lingual phonologicalsimilarity effect can be found in the word process of medium proficient Chinese-Japanesebilinguals and how the phonological information is stored.Six experiments were designed. Experiment1adopt mask priming paradigm, andsubjects were required to read words loudly as quickly as they can. The conclusion is thatthere exists cross-lingual phonological similarity effect when using the naming task, bothfrom L1to L2and from L2to L1.Experiment2adopt phonological priming paradigms and subjects were required to dolexical decision task. It aimed to explore the phonological similarity when using lexicaldecision task and the role of phonological information in the process of the lexical access. Theconclusion is that phonology plays a certain role in it.Experiment3and experiment4adopt ERP technology, collecting electroencephalographdatas of both experiments, aiming to explore processing mechanism. The P200/N200datascollected by using ERP provide powerful evidence for brain regions voice activation.Experiment5and experiment6adopt the variant of Stroop paradigm. The experimentalmaterials are elected from three special color words in Japanese, and the stimulus were presented under the auditory modality and the visual modality respectively. The purpose ofthis experiment was to investigate the phonological priming effect of graphic, phonological,and semantic.The conclusion is that even for the medium proficient Chinese-Japanese bilinguals,phonological representations are shared in one mental lexicon; phonology plays a role onlexical access, with little effect from character.