TY - JOUR
T1 - A Study of Interlingual and Intralingual Stroop Effect in Three Different Scripts
T2 - Logograph, Syllabary, and Alphabet
AU - Lee, Wei Ling
AU - Wee, Ghim Choo
AU - Tzeng, Ovid J.L.
AU - Hung, Daisy L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The research reported here was supported in part by a research grant from the National Science Council of Singapore to Wei Ling Lee, and in part by a grant from CCK Cultural Foundation to Daisy Hung and in part by a research grant from the National Science Council of the Republic of China (NSC 80-0301-H194-05) to Ovid Tzeng. We are grateful for the full support from the Singapore Primary School District. Many teachers helped in the various phases of the study; to them, we express our sincere appreciation.
PY - 1992/1/1
Y1 - 1992/1/1
N2 - One hundred and sixty-seven Chinese, 24 Malay and 24 Indian children of Singapore, bilingual in both English and their mother tongues (Chinese, Malay, and Tamil, respectively) were tested with the Stroop color-naming tasks in both languages under intralingual and interlingual conditions. The interference effect was found for each and every language, with respect to both intra- and inter-language conditions. The Chinese words were not found to cause more interference than the English words, and the reduction in interference in the switch language situation was the same for all three bilingual groups. These results contradict the predictions made by the orthography-specific hypothesis in which logographic script is expected to induce greater intralanguage interference than the sound-based scripts (syllabary and alphabet) and the reduction of interference from intra- to interlanguage condition is expected to increase as the difference between two orthographic structures increases. A further analysis suggests that the speed of decoding color words and the speed of generating color names may combine to determine the magnitude of the Stroop effect. Under such a conceptualization, it is meaningless to assign any important role to the orthographic factor in the interpretation of the bilingual Stroop effect. In fact, the Stroop effect itself, regardless of the context of bilingualism, is better handled by an activation-suppression model of selective attention which accounts for all data observed in the present study as well as those observed in the previous literature.
AB - One hundred and sixty-seven Chinese, 24 Malay and 24 Indian children of Singapore, bilingual in both English and their mother tongues (Chinese, Malay, and Tamil, respectively) were tested with the Stroop color-naming tasks in both languages under intralingual and interlingual conditions. The interference effect was found for each and every language, with respect to both intra- and inter-language conditions. The Chinese words were not found to cause more interference than the English words, and the reduction in interference in the switch language situation was the same for all three bilingual groups. These results contradict the predictions made by the orthography-specific hypothesis in which logographic script is expected to induce greater intralanguage interference than the sound-based scripts (syllabary and alphabet) and the reduction of interference from intra- to interlanguage condition is expected to increase as the difference between two orthographic structures increases. A further analysis suggests that the speed of decoding color words and the speed of generating color names may combine to determine the magnitude of the Stroop effect. Under such a conceptualization, it is meaningless to assign any important role to the orthographic factor in the interpretation of the bilingual Stroop effect. In fact, the Stroop effect itself, regardless of the context of bilingualism, is better handled by an activation-suppression model of selective attention which accounts for all data observed in the present study as well as those observed in the previous literature.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0166-4115(08)61509-5
DO - 10.1016/S0166-4115(08)61509-5
M3 - 期刊論文
AN - SCOPUS:77956777847
SN - 0166-4115
VL - 83
SP - 427
EP - 442
JO - Advances in Psychology
JF - Advances in Psychology
IS - C
ER -