Trilingual parallel processing: Do the dominant languages grab all the attention?

• Lekhnath Sharma Pathak ^[1] ; Mila Vulchanova ^[1] ; Poshak Pathak ^[3] ; Ramesh Kumar Mishra ^[2]
  1. [1] Norwegian University of Science and Technology

     Norwegian University of Science and Technology

     Noruega

     
  2. [2] University of Hyderabad

     University of Hyderabad

     India

     
  3. [3] Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal ; University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, USA

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• Localización: Bilingualism: Language and cognition, ISSN 1366-7289, Vol. 28, Nº 1, 2025, págs. 154-171
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1017/S1366728924000257
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• Resumen

  • Twenty-five L1 Nepali speaking participants living in Trondheim, Norway who spoke English as L2 and Norwegian as L3 (late adult learners) participated in this study. Participants’ L2 proficiency was established as advanced in LexTALE. We administered language comprehension and production tasks in a trilingual design. In a mouse tracking trilingual parallel activation experiment, participants performed a language comprehension task in which they listened to the spoken word in their L1, L2 and L3 and clicked on the matching target picture. Mouse trajectories of their response pattern were recorded and analyzed. The language production task included a phonological and a semantic verbal fluency task (VFT), which also served as an executive control task. VFT showed their dominance in L1 and L2 compared to L3. This study contributes novel knowledge on trilingual parallel activation and suggests that in the presence of a non-dominant L3, a dominant L1 and a dominant L2 are processed faster than the non-dominant language in phonologically competing conditions.

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