Abstract: In the present experiment, we added imagery as a variable. Chinese- English bilinguals were tested in a lexical decision task. Interling- ual repetitions were found to have effects identical to those of intralingu- al repetitions for high-imagery words, whereas only intralingual repetition effects were found for low-imagery ones. This experiment and the previ- ous one taken together showed that lexical information was tagged and stored into two seperate linguistic systems corresponding to the two lan- guages. Under the condition that the subjects were unable to translate actively the equivalents, no automatic direct transfer (or activation) occured between logogens in the two systems. The only connection between them was via an image system.

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