Abstract:
A series of two experiments was conducted to investigate the extent to which semantic
interference occurs due to orthographic variety between 1) fluent bilingual Japanese-English
speakers and 2) novice level Japanese learners learning kanji characters. In Experiment 1, the
bilingual version of the Stroop test (English and Japanese) was carried out to better characterize
the mental lexical structure in Japanese-English bilingual university students, and . In
Experiment 2, the same bilingual version of the Stroop test was given twice, right after the
learning session and the week later, to better understand the early stages of development
in a mental hierarchical structure in Japanese kanji on the lexical level in novice level
Japanese learners. and measuring reaction time to find the conceptual interference reflected
in the mental lexical structure.
The study focuses on three things: 1) the early stage of
development in a mental hierarchical structure in Japanese kanji on the lexical level, 2)
word storage in cognitive structure, and 3) the degree of conceptual interference when the
target language has a different type of orthography from the learner's first language
(measured by reaction time). The proposed experiment is a modified replication of Altarriba
and Mathis's (1997) research published in the Journal of Memory and Language.
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