Coloring Naming Interference in Monolinguals and Bilinguals with matching Interfering and naming Languages.
Abstract
English-speaking monolinguals named colors as quickly as possible when the color stimuli were color names written either in English or a number of other languages. Color naming was found to be slowest for English words and increased in speed as the foreign color names became less similar to their English equivalents. In a second experiment, Spanish-English bilinguals named colors in both languages with color stimuli that were either Spanish color names, English color names or control Xs. Color naming was slowest when the naming language and the language of the color names was the same although considerable interference also occurred when they differed. The pattern of interference in these conditions was related to S's relative proficiency in Spanish and English. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 30, 1970
- Accession Number
- AD0717230
Entities
People
- Frederick N. Dyer
Organizations
- United States Army Medical Research Laboratory