Investigating tip-of-the-tongue states in Norwegian-English bilinguals : Effects of word frequency, cognate status and noun type in word retrieval, i…

2021

Master´s thesis in English (EN501) The current study aimed to explore the effects of frequency, cognate status and noun type in tip-of-the-tongue occurrences in Norwegian-English bilinguals. In what manner the bilingual profile may exert influence on the matter was of additional interest. This study also attempted to relate results to the varying approaches presented by the weaker links hypothesis and the competition hypothesis. Stimuli sets were created consisting of target words controlled for the aforementioned manipulations and randomly dispersed throughout experiment blocks. Predictions were made based on language production models and results from similar studies performed previously.…