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Spanish-English bilinguals were asked to determine whether a string of letters formed a word in their languages. Three separate conditions were used: two conditions blocked by language and a mixed-language condition. Some of the words were cognates, words with the same spelling and meaning in the two languages. There were no differences between blocked and mixed conditions; cognates were responded to with equal facility in all conditions, and there was an interaction of Cognates and Noncognates by Weak and Strong Language. These results were interpreted as supporting a direct graphemic lexical access model.
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The research reported here was supported in part by Biomedical Sciences Support Grant 5 S07 RR07041-12. The authors thank Hiram Brownell and Michael McCloskey for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper.
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Caramazza, A., Brones, I. Lexical access in bilinguals. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 13, 212–214 (1979). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335062
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