Caissie-Gilbert, Antonie, Guitard, Dominic and Saint-Aubin, Jean
2026.
Bilingualism and individual differences in short-term ordered serial recall.
Memory
34
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, pp. 666-688.
10.1080/09658211.2026.2657536
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Abstract
In two experiments, we examined whether individual differences in bilingual language proficiency predict immediate serial recall in a language-specific manner. A total of 96 French-English bilinguals completed an immediate serial recall task involving 40 lists of 6 words, followed by the LexTALE lexical decision task in both French and English to index lexical knowledge continuously. Experiment 1 used visually presented word lists and included both pure-language lists and alternating-language lists; Experiment 2 replicated the same design with auditory presentation. Across experiments, LexTALE scores reliably predicted recall accuracy for words presented in the corresponding language, such that participants with stronger lexical knowledge in a given language recalled more items from that language. This language-specific proficiency–recall relation held across list contexts and generalised across visual and auditory modalities. The findings support accounts in which immediate serial recall is constrained by the strength of language-specific long-term lexical representations that support retrieval during short-term remembering.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Psychology |
| Additional Information: | RRS policy applied |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis Group |
| ISSN: | 0965-8211 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 22 April 2026 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 31 March 2026 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2026 09:15 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/186543 |
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