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picture was appropriate. Words came from classical, radial, and homopho-
nic category types.
The results from that study are shown in Figure 4.4 (from Figure 4.2,
Gathercole & Moawad, 2010: 7). Those bilinguals tested in English per-
formed much lower than monolingual English speakers when English had a
wider category than Arabic. When English was narrower, the bilinguals

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Figure 4.4 Performance on English and Arabic by bilinguals and monolinguals (from
Gathercole & Moawad, 2010)