Classification of early bilingual informants according to their mother language and reproduction language

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to classify early bilingual young people according to the reaction time used from the visualization of a stimulus shown to the corresponding lexical emission and, with this, it is intended to observe the differences according to their mother tongue (LM) and the language of reproduction (LR) used. To this end, the data on the lexical emissions of 40 students of the Faculty of Education of Bilbao were obtained using a questionnaire of 34 stimuli through a sequence of slides, to which participants had to respond as quickly as possible. Participants were classified according to the data obtained through the following quantitative methods of conglomeration: hierarchical conglomeration method, K-means and the FCM algorithm based on fuzzy logic. In the results obtained, the participants were classified into heterogeneous groups and significant differences in lexical emissions according to LM and LR were observed.