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Frenck-Mestre, Cheryl; Grainger, Jonathan – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
Compared responses of English-French bilinguals performing semantic categorization and lexical decision tasks using translation-priming stimuli. Using the same stimuli, priming effects were significantly stronger in semantic categorization than in lexical decision, suggesting the translation-priming effect in the former is mediated by semantic…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, French, Language Patterns
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Holmes, V. M.; O'Regan, J. K. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1992
The recognition of multimorphemic French words was investigated using a procedure that allowed the position of first fixation of the eye to be manipulated and gaze durations to be recorded. (37 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: College Students, Eye Fixations, Foreign Countries, French
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Kandel, Sonia; Valdois, Sylviane – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
This study used a copying task to examine spelling acquisition in French and Spanish from a perception and action perspective. Experiment 1 compared French and Spanish-speaking monolingual children's performance. Experiment 2 analysed the behaviour of bilingual children when copying words in French and Spanish. Gaze lift analysis showed that in…
Descriptors: French, Spanish Speaking, Visual Perception, Monolingualism