Bilingual word retrieval in picture naming task

• Main Author: Ang, Padro Wen
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Psycholinguistics; DRNTU::Humanities::Language::Linguistics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59149
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Bilinguals have been known to perform poorly at linguistic processing tasks as compared to monolinguals. This paper compares the reaction time and accuracy in lexical word retrieval at a picture naming task between balanced and unbalanced bilinguals. 31 English dominant English-Mandarin bilinguals w...