Bassetti, Bene, Clarke, Annie and Trenkic, Danijela orcid.org/0000-0001-6340-6030 (2018) The linguistic transparency of first language calendar terms affects calendar calculations in a second language. Acta psychologica. pp. 81-89. ISSN 0001-6918
Abstract
Calendar calculations – e.g., calculating the nth month after a certain month – are an important component of temporal cognition, and can vary cross-linguistically. English speakers rely on a verbal list representation-processing system. Chinese speakers – whose calendar terms are numerically transparent – rely on a more efficient numerical system. Does knowing a numerically transparent calendar lexicon facilitate calendar calculations in an opaque second language? Late Chinese-English bilinguals and English native speakers performed a Month and a Weekday Calculation Task in English. Directionality (forward/backward) and boundary-crossing (within/across the year/week boundary) were manipulated. English speakers relied on verbal list processing, and were slower in backward than forward calculations. In spite of the English calendar system's opaqueness, bilinguals relied on numerical processing, were slower in across- than within-boundary trials, and under some conditions had faster RTs than the native speakers. Results have implications for research on temporal cognition, linguistic relativity and bilingual cognition.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Calendar calculation; Linguistic relativity; Temporal cognition; Bilingual cognition; Chinese,Bilingual cognition,Chinese,Calendar calculation,Temporal cognition,Linguistic relativity |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Education (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 20 Apr 2018 08:00 |
Last Modified: | 22 Dec 2024 00:12 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.04.006 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.04.006 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:129893 |
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