双语Stroop效应的性别差异研究

虽然许多研究发现男性和女性在语言能力上存在显著差异,但性别差异是否影响第二语言的水平和学习能力尚存在争议,相关研究较少。Stroop范式是语言研究的经典方法,它利用颜色信息和语义信息的相互干扰推论被试心理词典的表征结构。本研究利用此范式探讨不同性别的第二语言学习者在言语表征上的差异。结果显示被试性别与文字材料、性别与刺激类型均存在显著的交互作用,表明不同性别被试在第二语言表征上存在显著差异。

Gender Differences in Bilingual Stroop Effect

Although much research has shown that there exists significant difference in language capability between males and females, whether this gender-related differ- ence exists in learning capacity for a second language is controversial, and relevant literature is not suffi- cient. The Stroop paradigm is a classic in language research, which utilizes interfered color and semantic information to deduce the representation frame of the mental dictionary. The current study employed the Stroop paradigm to investigate the effect of gender difference in language representation for second lan-guage learners. The color Stroop task consisted three types stimuli, including consistency condition, incon- sistency condition, and irrelevant condition. A 2（ gen- der） ×2（language） × 3（stimuli type）design was ad- ministrated to college students. The results showed significant interaction between gender and languages, and between gender and stimulus types, suggesting gender is an important factor in the representation of second languages.