Inner speech and bilingual autobiographical memory: A Polish-Danish cross-cultural study

By S. Larsen, R. Schrauf, P. Fromholt, David C. Rubin. 2002

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Thirty years after fleeing from Poland to Denmark, 20 immigrants were enlisted in a study of bilingual autobiographical memory. Ten “early immigrators” averaged 24 years old at the time of immigration, and ten “late immigrators” averaged 34 years old at immigration. Although all 20 had spent 30 years in Denmark, early immigrators reported more current inner speech behaviours in Danish, whereas late immigrators showed more use of Polish. Both groups displayed proportionally more numerous autobiographical retrievals that were reported as coming to them internally in Polish (vs Danish) for the decades prior to immigration and more in Danish (vs Polish) after immigration. We propose a culture- and language-specific shaping of semantic and conceptual stores that underpins autobiographical and world knowledge.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Emotion and emotion-laden words in the bilingual lexicon (2008, background): “LANGUAGE SPECIFICITY refers to the finding that memories are more likely to be elicited by the language in which the events in question took place (Schrauf and Rubin, 1998, 2000, 2004; Marian and Neisser, 2000; Larsen et al., 2002).”
Advertising to Bilinguals: Does the Language of Advertising Influence the Nature of Thoughts? (2008, background): “Although the strong version of this argument has been discarded, there is common agreement that language does influence thought (Larsen et al. 2002; Marian and Neisser 2000), and this might be particularly true for social experiences (Fivush 1998; Schrauf 2003).”
Self-Construal and Emotion in Bicultural Bilinguals. (2004, background): “For bilinguals autobiographical memory, research has revealed different patterns of memory retrieval depending upon the language in which memories are being accessed (e.g., Conway, 2003; Javier, Barroso, & Munoz, 1993; Koven, 1998, 2001; Larsen, Schrauf, Fromholt, & Rubin, 2002; Marian & Neisser, ”
Possible links between self-awareness and inner speech: Theoretical background, underlying mechanisms, and empirical evidence (2004, background): “…basis of inner speech (e.g., Shergill et al., 2002), measurement issues (e.g., Lodge, Tripp and Harte, 2000), inner speech in bilinguals (Larsen et al., 2002), the incidence and functions of private speech in adults (Duncan and Cheyne, 1999), and connections between movies and inner…”