A dual-coding approach to bilingual memory.

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A bilingual version of a dual coding model of [human] language and cognition was introduced. The model specifies the functional relations between the verbal symbolic systems that underlie the bilingual''s 2 languages and a 3rd (image) system specialized for processing information about nonverbal objects and events. The 3 systems are assumed to be capable of functioning independently. At the same time, they can interact because of interconnections that permit 1 system to initiate activity in another. The image system, representing knowledge of the world, is connected to both verbal systems. The verbal systems are interconnected via representations corresponding to translation equivalents, thereby approximating one to one relations as compared to the one-to-many relations that characterize the associative networks within each language system. Implications of the model are discussed with reference to several current issues in the psychology of bilingualism.

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