各位老师，您好：由实验室郭桃梅老师邀请了University of Amsterdam,Netherland的Prof. Annette M. B. de  Groot来实验室做报告，欢迎感兴趣的老师来听。

报告信息如下：

报告题目：Parallel language activation during  bilingual word processing

报告摘要：

The results of a substantial body of studies have led  some authors to conclude that bilingual word processing is fundamentally  language-nonselective in nature. This means that bilinguals, while processing  words, cannot switch of the contextually inappropriate language, even not when  task performance takes place under unilingual circumstances. In other words, the  two languages of bilinguals are always both activated while they perform some  word-processing task and the co-activated knowledge structures of the non-target  language influence processing. In the vast majority of the studies that  gave rise to the above conclusion that bilingual word processing is language  nonselective the words to be responded to (the “targets”) were presented to the  participants visually or aurally (instead of having to be generated from  internal thought processes, as in word production tasks) and each target was  presented in isolation, that is, without being embedded in a context such as a  sentence or larger linguistic fragment. Studies of this type have shown, in  various ways, that lexical information in the non-target language is generally  co-activated with lexical information in the target language. Still, this type of evidence does not yet  warrant the conclusion that bilingual word processing is fundamentally language  nonselective. After all, during normal language processing words are never  presented in isolation but as part of larger and meaningful linguistic  structures. The larger linguistic context of a word may modulate the recognition  process, for instance by constraining activation to the contextually relevant  language. To legitimately draw the conclusion that bilingual word recognition is  fundamentally language-nonselective, evidence of co-activation of lexical  information in the contextually inappropriate language should therefore be  obtained from experiments that present the critical words in natural linguistic  units such as sentences. In addition, evidence of  language-nonselective word recognition as obtained in both in-context and  out-of-context experiments would still let in the possibility that only word  recognition, not word production, is fundamentally language-nonselective. In  word production the speaker is not driven by bottom-up information (as the  reader and listener are) but intentionally chooses the target language. It is  therefore possible that the speaker can exert some control over the memory  representations that are activated during speech production (e.g., Costa &  Santesteban, 2004). In fact, the present question regarding the  language-(non)-selective nature of bilingual word processing has also been  addressed in a couple of experiments that examined bilingual word production  out-of-context and in a few that examined bilingual word recognition in sentence  context. Furthermore, in our own laboratory we recently ran what we believe to  be the first set of experiments that examined the present question by looking at  bilingual word production in sentence context (Starreveld, De Groot, Rossmark,  & Van Hell, submitted). In my talk I will review the evidence from these  four types of studies on bilingual word processing – those on word recognition  in context and out of context, and those on word production, again in and out of  context – and discuss a few variables that appear to constrain the  language-nonselective nature of bilingual word processing. In addition I will  briefly present some views on how bilinguals, despite their relatively “noisy”  language system, manage to keep their languages separate

.报告人：Prof. Annette M. B. de  Groot       Department of Psychology,  University of Amsterdam, Netherland

报告时间：2011年12月13日上午10点

报告地点：小红楼三层大会议室

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