Seminars

In the bilingualism literature, cross-language activation has been demonstrated to support the phenomenon that bilinguals can’t simply shut off the language not-in-use when they are processing the other language. Cross-language activation can be driven by two sources of information: phonological overlap or automatic/implicit translation. In this talk, I will discuss a series of experiments where we are particularly interested in the role of lexical tones in cross-language activation. In particular, I will discuss how we design experiments to investigate the tonal effects coming from two different sources in bilingual lexical processing. Bio Dr. Wang, Xin is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie [...]