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Bilingual language control across modalities
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Abstract
Bilingual language control has previously been tested separately in tasks of language comprehension and language production. Whereas these studies have suggested that local control processes are selectively recruited during mixed-language production, the present study investigated whether measures of global control show the same dependence on modality, or are shared across modalities. Thirty-eight Dutch-French bilingual young adults participated by completing two tasks of bilingual language control in both modalities. Global accuracy on mixed-language comprehension was related to mixing costs on bilingual verbal fluency, but only when compared to the L 2 -baseline. Global performance on mixed-language production was related to forward (L 1 -to-L 2 ) switch costs. Finally, a significant correlation was found between the mixing cost on verbal fluency and forward switch costs on the comprehension task. The results are interpreted as evidence for the involvement of monitoring processes in bilingual language control across modality. The results also highlight the relevance of language switch directionality.
Abstract
Bilingual language control has previously been tested separately in tasks of language comprehension and language production. Whereas these studies have suggested that local control processes are selectively recruited during mixed-language production, the present study investigated whether measures of global control show the same dependence on modality, or are shared across modalities. Thirty-eight Dutch-French bilingual young adults participated by completing two tasks of bilingual language control in both modalities. Global accuracy on mixed-language comprehension was related to mixing costs on bilingual verbal fluency, but only when compared to the L 2 -baseline. Global performance on mixed-language production was related to forward (L 1 -to-L 2 ) switch costs. Finally, a significant correlation was found between the mixing cost on verbal fluency and forward switch costs on the comprehension task. The results are interpreted as evidence for the involvement of monitoring processes in bilingual language control across modality. The results also highlight the relevance of language switch directionality.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children 1
- Processing strategies used by Basque-French bilingual and Basque monolingual children for the production of the subject-agent in Basque 11
- Bilingual language control across modalities 39
- Bilingual reference production 67
- Investigating vulnerabilities in grammatical processing of bilinguals 99
- Dominance, mode, and individual variation in bilingual speech production and perception 127
- Child heritage speakers’ production and comprehension of direct object clitic gender in Spanish 159
- Basque-Spanish bilingual children’s expressive and receptive grammatical abilities 187
- Adjective-noun order in Papiamento-Dutch code-switching 211
- Production, comprehension and repetition of accusative case by monolingual Russian and bilingual Russian-Dutch and Russian-Hebrew-speaking children 237
- Index 268
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children 1
- Processing strategies used by Basque-French bilingual and Basque monolingual children for the production of the subject-agent in Basque 11
- Bilingual language control across modalities 39
- Bilingual reference production 67
- Investigating vulnerabilities in grammatical processing of bilinguals 99
- Dominance, mode, and individual variation in bilingual speech production and perception 127
- Child heritage speakers’ production and comprehension of direct object clitic gender in Spanish 159
- Basque-Spanish bilingual children’s expressive and receptive grammatical abilities 187
- Adjective-noun order in Papiamento-Dutch code-switching 211
- Production, comprehension and repetition of accusative case by monolingual Russian and bilingual Russian-Dutch and Russian-Hebrew-speaking children 237
- Index 268
