The Effect of Language Proficiency and Automatic Linguistic Correcting on Interfering Intensity
These authors contributed equally.
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.084How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Stroop Color-Word Test; Chinese-English Bilingual; Psycholinguistic
- Abstract
The Stroop Color-Word Test (SCWT) is a psychological test used to assess the semantic interference that is manifested as the difference in reaction time between processing congruent (color-meaning matched) and incongruent (color-meaning mismatched) word conditions, and has been well studied in the cognitive field across different countries. However, further studies on factors that affect such interference still lack consistencies, especially in terms of the influence of language proficiency among Chinese-English bilinguals. Additionally, an unconscious mental process that is hard to inhibit is also pervasive within language comprehension itself. Usually, people can recognize word meanings without thinking seriously or spend cognitive resources to decode words, and can even automatically correct a string of words filled with typos or perversions and successfully get the right semantic information due to top-down processing. To explore the influence of these two linguistic factors on the Stroop effect, Chinese-English bilinguals (native Chinese) were recruited as participants online, and their response time and accuracy in traditional SCWTs in English and Chinese version, as well as a modified English version SCWT which contains pseudowords resembling color words, were recorded and analyzed for comparison. The study found a significant Stroop effect within each language version among participants, but no effect of language proficiency on semantic interference, as there was no response time difference between tests in two languages. Moreover, the influence of automatic linguistic correcting was found in SCWT, supported by a significant congruency effect and facilitating effect in English pseudowords.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Dan Geng AU - Yixiang Liu AU - Jingkang Wang PY - 2022 DA - 2022/01/17 TI - The Effect of Language Proficiency and Automatic Linguistic Correcting on Interfering Intensity BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 446 EP - 451 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220105.084 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.084 ID - Geng2022 ER -