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SUMMARY:Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Carrie Jackson
DESCRIPTION:\nIt is well attested that bilingual participants are faster
	 to recognize and recall words that are cognates across their languages 
	than non-cognates (see van Hell &amp\; Tanner\, 2012 for review). At lea
	st among highly proficient bilinguals\, this effect emerges even when co
	mpleting a task in their L1 (e.g.\, Pelzl et al.\, 2025\; van Hell &amp\
	; Dijkstra\, 2002). Separate from the cognate effect\, another well-know
	n effect in this literature is that monolingual and bilingual speakers a
	re faster to recognize and produce words associated with positive emotio
	ns (e.g.\, chocolate) and slower to recognize and produce words associat
	ed with negative emotions (e.g.\, ambulance) relative to neutral words (
	e.g.\, lightbulb\; see Zhong et al.\, 2026 for review).\n\nHowever\, no 
	research to date has investigated either phenomenon among populations cu
	rrently living under wartime conditions. Using lexical decision and word
	 recall tasks\, the present study investigates bilingual cognate and bil
	ingual affective word processing among Ukrainian-Russian bilinguals curr
	ently living in Ukraine. All participants were proficient speakers of Uk
	rainian and Russian\, having acquired both languages from birth or as yo
	ung children.\n\nContrary to previous research\, participants were signi
	ficantly slower to recognize Ukrainian-Russian cognates than Ukrainian n
	on-cognates and there was no benefit for cognates during word recall. Wi
	th affective processing\, participants were faster to recognize positive
	 words than either negative or neutral words in the lexical decision tas
	k and they recalled more positive and negative words than neutral words 
	on the word recall task\, paralleling previous research. Carrie Jackson 
	will discuss how these results do (and do not) suggest a role for extern
	al circumstances (i.e.\, war) in our understanding of bilingual word pro
	cessing.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cls-speake
	r-series-jackson/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head></head><body><p>It is well atte
	sted that bilingual participants are faster to recognize and recall word
	s that are cognates across their languages than non-cognates (see van He
	ll &amp; Tanner, 2012 for review). At least among highly proficient bili
	nguals, this effect emerges even when completing a task in their L1 (e.g
	., Pelzl et al., 2025; van Hell &amp; Dijkstra, 2002). Separate from the
	 cognate effect, another well-known effect in this literature is that mo
	nolingual and bilingual speakers are faster to recognize and produce wor
	ds associated with positive emotions (e.g., chocolate) and slower to rec
	ognize and produce words associated with negative emotions (e.g., ambula
	nce) relative to neutral words (e.g., lightbulb; see Zhong et al., 2026 
	for review).</p><p>However, no research to date has investigated either 
	phenomenon among populations currently living under wartime conditions. 
	Using lexical decision and word recall tasks, the present study investig
	ates bilingual cognate and bilingual affective word processing among Ukr
	ainian-Russian bilinguals currently living in Ukraine. All participants 
	were proficient speakers of Ukrainian and Russian, having acquired both 
	languages from birth or as young children.</p><p>Contrary to previous re
	search, participants were significantly slower to recognize Ukrainian-Ru
	ssian cognates than Ukrainian non-cognates and there was no benefit for 
	cognates during word recall. With affective processing, participants wer
	e faster to recognize positive words than either negative or neutral wor
	ds in the lexical decision task and they recalled more positive and nega
	tive words than neutral words on the word recall task, paralleling previ
	ous research. Carrie Jackson will discuss how these results do (and do n
	ot) suggest a role for external circumstances (i.e., war) in our underst
	anding of bilingual word processing.</p><p>For more details: <a href='ht
	tps://events.la.psu.edu/event/cls-speaker-series-jackson/'>https://event
	s.la.psu.edu/event/cls-speaker-series-jackson/</a></p></body></html>
LOCATION:Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
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