Linguistic diversity and the bilingual lexicon: The Belgian Story
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Analogous to Malt, Sloman, Gennari, Shi and Wang (1999) we examined the relation between linguistic categorization and similarity of artifacts by Dutch-speaking and Frenchspeaking monolingual Belgians. We replicated the dissociation between naming and sorting found by Malt et al. (1999) for speakers of English, Chinese and Spanish. We also investigated the relation between the two naming patterns of bilingual Belgians, raised simultaneously in French and in Dutch, and how these naming patterns can be linked to the naming of the monolinguals. The results showed that the French and Dutch naming pattern of the bilinguals didn’t parallel the respective naming patterns of the monolinguals, but rather merged into a common naming pattern.
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