A Research On The Mechanism Of Lexical Access In The Production Of Chinese As A Third Language

In today’s society,more and more people are acquiring two or more languages.Multilingual acquisition has become a norm.Studying the process of multilingual output with Chinese as the target language not only deepens people’s knowledge of language output,but also enriches related theoretical knowledge and provides theoretical reference for Chinese language teaching.In this study,32 Bangladeshi trilinguals who were proficient in a second language and proficient or not in a third language were used as experimental subjects in a picture naming and lexical judgment task under a cross-linguistic long-term repetition priming paradigm.By varying the subjects’ learning of the experimental material and observing whether there were significant differences in react time and accuracy,we speculated whether priming effects existed,so as to investigate whether Bangladeshi trilinguals in the process of Chinese language output processing of the second-language English lexical level,and also explored the lexical access of trilinguals.The experimental results showed that Bangladeshi trilinguals who were proficient in both the second and third languages and Bangladeshi trilinguals who were proficient in the second language and not in the third language both performed inhibitory control processing at the bilingual lexical level during trilingual output,and the results supported the inhibitory control model in the language unspecific selection hypothesis,while because of the existence of inhibitory processing in trilinguals,it indicated that the lexical representation access of proficient trilinguals should be a shared storage model.The results of this study validate the theories related to trilingual studies,and at the same time provide some reference for future research on Chinese trilingual output,and are enlightening for Chinese language teaching.