Metalinguistic filters within the bilingual language faculty : a study of young English-Chinese bilinguals

• Main Authors: Ong, Kenneth Keng Wee., Zhang, Lawrence Jun.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Psycholinguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92738; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6221
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study reports two metalinguistic parameters that constitute the schematic control of lateral inhibitory links between translation equivalents within the bilingual lexico-semantic system of Green’s (1998a,1998b,2007) inhibitory control (IC) model. Building on Green’s postulation that the bilingu...