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An Evaluation Of The Revised Hierarchical Model (Rhm): How Quickly Do We Learn To Associate Clock With Uhr?, Sierra Fuller Jun 2012

An Evaluation Of The Revised Hierarchical Model (Rhm): How Quickly Do We Learn To Associate Clock With Uhr?, Sierra Fuller

Honors Theses

The goal of the current study was to examine the Revised Hierarchical Model of bilingual language representation proposed by Kroll and Stewart (1994) by exploring the connection between the lexicon for one’s native language (L1) and the lexicon for one’s second language (L2) in novice bilinguals. Forty-three participants were taught 30 German words and then given a Translation Recognition Task to conjecture which pathways of the RHM were being utilized in the language acquisition process. The results supported our hypothesis, showing that there was greater interference for the monolinguals from the orthographically similar translations than the unrelated translations. The discovery …