Two multitrial free-recall experiments were designed to evaluate conditions of interlingual facilitation. In Exp. I, recall on a list of translated pairs exceeded performance on a list of unrelated words when the basis for comparison was the number of words recalled but not when the comparison was based on the number of concepts recalled. In Exp. II, the performance of 5 bilingual Ss asked to recall translated pairs together exceeded that of 5 Ss instructed to organize recall by language. This difference was not obtained with non-bilingual Ss.
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