2019/12/03 by Joyce van Zwet, Van Zwet, Joyce
Neuroscience · Psychology · #BIA model #Multilingualism #Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism #Second Language Acquisition and Learning #independent model #multilingualism in the brain #revised hierarchical model. #semantic priming
paper · doi:10.25609/sure.v5.4175
openalex publication_date 2019/12/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
This study investigates the organization of the mental lexicon in the multilingual brain in order to determine whether there is interaction between the lexicons of a speaker’s different languages. We performed a cross-language semantic priming experiment with Dutch native speakers having varying levels of French. We analysed our data in view of three models: the independent model (Kolers, 1963), the revised hierarchical model (Kroll & Steward, 2002) and the BIA+ model (Dijkstra et al, 2002). Our results support the independent model in which there is suggested that there is no interaction between the mental lexicons of the speakers’ languages.