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Picture-naming agreement in monolingulas and biliguals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Judith P. Goggin ,
Patricia Estrada  and
Ronald P. Villarreal
Judith P. Goggin*
Affiliation:
University of Texas, El Paso
Patricia Estrada
Affiliation:
University of Texas, El Paso
Ronald P. Villarreal
Affiliation:
University of Texas, El Paso
*
Dr. Judith Goggin, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968-0553
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Abstract

Name agreement in Spanish and English in response to 264 pictures was assessed in monolinguals and in bilinguals, who varied in rated skill in the two languages. Most of the pictures were adapted from a standardized set of line drawings of common objects (Snodgrass & Vanderwart, 1980). Name agreement decreased as language skill decreased, and agreement was lower when labels were given in Spanish rather than in English. The relationship between name agreement and word frequency, word length, and (in the case of English) age of acquisition was assessed; both word frequency and word length were found to be related to agreement. Modal responses given by monolingual subjects were nearly identical in the two languages, and the types of non-modal responses were affected by both naming language and language skill.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , April 1994 , pp. 177 - 193
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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