The Multilink model applied successfully to non-alphabetic scripts The case of Japanese kana
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2020-02-01
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Multilink is a localist-connectionist computational model that accurately simulates
Dutch-English bilingual word processing times in several linguistic tasks (Dijkstra et al.,
2018). The model can help us greatly to understand the bilingual human mind, but until
now it has only been applied to languages that use an alphabetic script. Many other
languages across the world use a variety of non-alphabetic scripts, and many bilinguals
are fluent in languages with differing scripts. The current project extends the model’s
performance to non-alphabetic scripts, namely Japanese katakana and hiragana. The
model was indeed able to process these new scripts and it could accurately simulate
human lexical decision studies involving Japanese-English bilinguals. This suggests that
the mechanisms underlying human word processing may be universal and extend across
writing systems.
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Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen