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Degree of Bilingualism Predicts Age of Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease in Low-Education but Not in Highly Educated Hispanics
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Gollan, Tamar H.; Salmon, David P.; Montoya, Rosa I.; Galasko, Douglas R. – Neuropsychologia, 2011
The current study investigated the relationship between bilingual language proficiency and onset of probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) in 44 Spanish-English bilinguals at the UCSD Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. Degree of bilingualism along a continuum was measured using Boston Naming Test (BNT) scores in each language. Higher degrees of…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Language Proficiency, Bilingualism, Predictor Variables
Frequency Drives Lexical Access in Reading but Not in Speaking: The Frequency-Lag Hypothesis
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Gollan, Tamar H.; Slattery, Timothy J.; Goldenberg, Diane; Van Assche, Eva; Duyck, Wouter; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2011
To contrast mechanisms of lexical access in production versus comprehension we compared the effects of word frequency (high, low), context (none, low constraint, high constraint), and level of English proficiency (monolingual, Spanish-English bilingual, Dutch-English bilingual) on picture naming, lexical decision, and eye fixation times. Semantic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Eye Movements, Monolingualism, Language Processing