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Fang SY, Zinszer BD, Malt BC, et al. Bilingual Object Naming: A Connectionist Model. Front Psychol. 2016;7:644doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00644.
Fang, S. Y., Zinszer, B. D., Malt, B. C., & Li, P. (2016). Bilingual Object Naming: A Connectionist Model. Frontiers in psychology, 7644. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00644
Fang, Shin-Yi, et al. "Bilingual Object Naming: A Connectionist Model." Frontiers in psychology vol. 7 (2016): 644. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00644
Fang SY, Zinszer BD, Malt BC, Li P. Bilingual Object Naming: A Connectionist Model. Front Psychol. 2016 May 09;7:644. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00644. eCollection 2016. PMID: 27242575; PMCID: PMC4860466.
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Front Psychol. 2016 May 09;7:644. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00644. eCollection 2016.

Bilingual Object Naming: A Connectionist Model.

Frontiers in psychology

Shin-Yi Fang, Benjamin D Zinszer, Barbara C Malt, Ping Li

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology and Center for Brain, Behavior, and Cognition, The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA, USA.
  2. Department of Psychology and Center for Brain, Behavior, and Cognition, The Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity Park, PA, USA; Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of RochesterRochester, NY, USA.
  3. Department of Psychology, Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA, USA.

PMID: 27242575 PMCID: PMC4860466 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00644

Abstract

Patterns of object naming often differ between languages, but bilingual speakers develop convergent naming patterns in their two languages that are distinct from those of monolingual speakers of each language. This convergence appears to reflect interactions between lexical representations for the two languages. In this study, we developed a self-organizing connectionist model to simulate semantic convergence in the bilingual lexicon and investigate the mechanisms underlying this semantic convergence. We examined the similarity of patterns in the simulated data to empirical data from past research, and we identified how semantic convergence was manifested in the simulated bilingual lexical knowledge. Furthermore, we created impaired models in which components of the network were removed so as to examine the importance of the relevant components on bilingual object naming. Our results demonstrate that connections between two languages' lexicons can be established through the simultaneous activations of related words in the two languages. These connections between languages allow the outputs of their lexicons to become more similar, that is, to converge. Our model provides a basis for future computational studies of how various input variables may affect bilingual naming patterns.

Keywords: bilingual lexicon; computational modeling; object naming; self-organizing map; semantic convergence

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