Cross-language Influence and Language Co-activation in L3 word Acquisition: Evidence from Masked Priming Effect in Visual-Auditory Lexical Recognition Tasks Among Tibetan-Chinese-English Trilinguals

This study sets out to investigate CLI and language co-activation in L3 word acquisition among Tibetan-Chinese-English trilinguals whose three languages lack orthographically and phonologically similarities. We designed four experiments that used masked priming paradigm to test the priming effect from L1 to L3, L2 to L3, L3 to L1 and L3 to L2 respectively in audio-visually presented lexical decision tasks.

本研究旨在探讨藏-汉-英三语者（其三种语言在正字法与音系层面均无相似性）的第三语言（L3）词汇习得中的跨语言影响（Cross-Language Influence，CLI）与语言共激活现象。我们设计了四项采用掩蔽启动范式（masked priming paradigm）的实验，在视听呈现的词汇判断任务中，分别测试了第一语言（L1）至第三语言（L3）、第二语言（L2）至第三语言（L3）、第三语言（L3）至第一语言（L1）以及第三语言（L3）至第二语言（L2）的启动效应。