Bilingual Lexical Organization

Abstract

This experiment studied lexical organization within bilinguals under the concept heading of color. This experiment was carried out using a computer program, the bilingual stroop task, which asked users to name the color of a word that was flashed on a computer screen, regardless of what the word itself said. It sought to compare varying amounts of interference time generated by the stroop effect across different categories of words: words that were color related and words that were not color related. It was found, however, that the mere presence of interference in relation to categories of words was not sufficient for explaining the psycholinguistic issues surrounding communication between the two languages of a bilingual, but rather the deeper study of amounts of interference with respect to each language was necessary.