script differences and masked translation priming evidence from hindienglish bilinguals this study reports on two experiments investigating the effects of script differences on masked translation priming in highly proficient early hindienglish bilinguals in experiment 1 the crossscript experiment l1 hindi was presented in the standard devanagari script while l2 english was presented in the roman alphabet in experiment 2 the samescript experiment both l1 hindi and l2 english were presented in the roman alphabet both experiments revealed translation priming in the l1l2 direction however l2l1 priming was obtained in the samescript experiment but not in the crossscript experiment these findings are discussed in relation to the orthographic cue hypothesis as well as hypotheses that hold that script differences influence the distance between the l1 and l2 in lexical space andor crosslanguage lateral inhibition we also provide alternative accounts for these results in terms of how orthographic cues provided by l1 targets might lead to the discontinuation or disruption of processing for l2 primes