{"id":1515,"date":"2022-11-04T21:46:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T21:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/?page_id=1515"},"modified":"2022-11-10T13:24:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T13:24:14","slug":"23rd-november-yi-wang","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/23rd-november-yi-wang\/","title":{"rendered":"23rd November 2022: Yi Wang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>23rd November 2022 (Week 8 of term)<\/strong>:<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/people\/view\/2603290-\">\u00a0Yi Wang<\/a>, Cardiff University (In-person event in room 3.62 of the John Percival Building)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:\u00a0<em>How verbal labels modulate early Cantonese-English bilinguals\u2019 perception and categorization of motion events<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This study investigated how strongly verbal labels affect early Cantonese-English bilinguals\u2019 perception and categorization of similar events. Using a triad-matching paradigm with the same participant populations (N=120), we compared monolingual and bilingual speakers\u2019 performance on similarity judgements under three conditions (i.e., with either Cantonese- or English-based linguistic encoding, in silence, and with verbal interference) where their access to language was progressively reduced. It was found that bilinguals exhibited an English-like way in categorization preferences and processing efficiency (i.e., reaction time) as long as the access to language was possible during task performance. However, the observed cross-linguistic differences in categorization disappeared when the use of language was blocked by a concurrent verbal interference. These findings suggest that learning an L2 with even subtle typological differences can redirect people\u2019s cognitive behaviour, and the magnitude of such impact is modulated by the degree to which verbal labels are activated during cognitive processing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"23rd November 2022 (Week 8 of term):\u00a0Yi Wang, Cardiff University (In-person event in room 3.62 of the John Percival Building) Title:\u00a0How verbal labels modulate early Cantonese-English bilinguals\u2019 perception and categorization [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1515","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1515\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}