International Journal of Bilingualism articles from September 2003

International Journal of Bilingualism archives from September 2003

Bilingual episodic memory: an introduction *.
September 1, 2003... Abstract Our current models of bilingual memory are essentially accounts of semantic memory whose goal is to explain bilingual lexical access to underlying imagistic and conceptual referents. While this research has included episodic...

A protocol analysis of retrieval in bilingual autobiographical memory. *.
September 1, 2003... Abstract Effortful retrieval of specific memories may be characterized as a step-wise procedure in which a chain of associations (imagery, language, feelings, concepts) is activated and the information matched to search requirements until...

Eyewitness memory in late bilinguals: evidence for discursive relativity. *.
September 1, 2003... Abstract Loftus and Palmer's (1974) ingenious experiments convincingly demonstrated that linguistic changes in the verbal framing of questions result in changes in eyewitness testimonies. Their findings have inspired a new line of research...

Children's cultural background knowledge and story telling performance. *.
September 1, 2003... Abstract The cultural context in which a child is raised influences her cognitive system and language behavior. In this paper, we explored the influence of cultural background knowledge on story telling performance of two groups of...

Does carino equal "liking"? A theoretical approach to conceptual nonequivalence between languages.
September 1, 2003... Abstract A new methodological approach to understanding the mental representation of concepts and words that represent them in the first language of bilinguals was investigated. Spanish-English bilinguals were asked to rate Spanish words...