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Chapter Six - Bilingual Lexical and Conceptual Memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2023

John W. Schwieter
Affiliation:
Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario
Julia Festman
Affiliation:
University College of Teacher Education Tyrol
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Summary

Because the majority of the world’s population speaks more than one language, in this chapter we consider that a “bilingual mental lexicon” can be viewed as the default, which may be a more accurate way of exploring lexical and conceptual memory. We transition to examine how concepts and words are represented in the mind, with a particular emphasis on the dynamic, developmental nature of word-to-concept mapping and the distributed, overlapping characteristics of semantic representations. Against this background, we review several theoretical models of word processing – including word recognition, production, and translation. The first set of models includes the Word Association Model and the Concept Mediation Model. We then discuss another set of models that offer a more detailed account of the conceptual system by emphasizing the degree of overlap that exists between conceptual representations in the two languages. In the last section of the chapter, we review two localist-connectionist models: the BIA/BIA+/BIA-d and the Multilink Models.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Altarriba, J., & Isurin, L. (Eds.). (2014). Memory, language, and bilingualism: Theoretical and applied approaches. Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Heredia, R., & Altarriba, J. (Eds.). (2014). Foundations of bilingual memory. Springer.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Heredia, R., & Cieślicka, A. (Eds.). (2020). Bilingual lexical ambiguity resolution. Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar

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