Control mechanisms in voluntary versus mandatory language switching: Evidence from ERPs

Lu, Joan; Gao, Yanzi; Schwieter, John W.; Li, Lü; Zhu, Mingming; Liu, Cong

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2022.06.005

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“…The extra inhibition could lead to asymmetrical switch cost (L1 > L2) at the local level and reversed language dominance at the global level, together with larger N2 and LPC when switching to L2 and larger LPC in overall L2 naming. The pattern of reversed language dominance with slower L1 naming in the baseline context was consistent with previous language-switching studies for unbalanced bilinguals (e.g., Christoffels et al, 2007;Jiao et al, 2022b). At the neurological level, larger LPC for L2 trials, on the whole, is in line with preceding ERP studies of language switching (Liu et al, 2016;Peeters, 2020), which highlighted global inhibition of the dominant L1 to facilitate efficient production in both languages in a mixed-language context.…”

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“…Proactive language control, indicated by the reserved language dominance effect, is also connected with the LPC component. Larger N2 and LPC amplitudes for switch trials than for repeat trials are suggested to reflect switch cost ( Jackson et al, 2001 ; Verhoef et al, 2009 ), while increased LPC in L2 than in L1 is associated with the reversed language dominance effect ( Liu et al, 2016 ; Timmer et al, 2019 ; Jiao et al, 2022b ).…”

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“…The reactive language control measured by switch cost has been associated with N2 ( Jackson et al, 2001 ; Verhoef et al, 2009 ; Liu et al, 2020 ) and Late Positive Component (LPC; Martin et al, 2013 ; Liu et al, 2016 , 2020 ). In language switching studies, the N2 component indicates that inhibition may take place during the language selection phase, while the LPC indicates that inhibition may occur during the lexical selection phase ( Jackson et al, 2001 ; Liu et al, 2016 ; Jiao et al, 2022b ). Moreover, ERP studies revealed that the LPC component is sensitive to the reversed language dominance effect, with enlarged amplitudes for L2 relative to L1 trials ( Liu et al, 2016 ; Timmer et al, 2017 , 2019 ).…”

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When interlocutor’s face-language matching alters: An ERP study on face contexts and bilingual language control in mixed-language picture naming

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The present study used event-related potentials (ERP) to examine Chinese-English bilinguals’ reactive and proactive language control as they performed mixed-language picture naming with face cues. All participants named pictures in Chinese (first language, L1) and English (second language, L2) across three sessions: a 25% face-language matched session, a baseline session without face cues, and a 75% face-language matched session. Behavioral analyses for reactive language control showed that the asymmetrical switch cost was larger for L2 than L1 in the 25% session and for L1 than L2 in the 75% session. ERP results revealed more negative N2 and LPC during L1 switching in 25% session but enhanced N2 during L2 switching in 75% session. Similar N2 and LPC effect was found during L1 and L2 switching in the baseline context. For proactive language control, the reversed language dominance and enhanced LPC amplitudes during L2 naming were consistent across the three sessions. Our findings suggest that reactive but not proactive language control is modulated by the ever-changing face contexts, which highlights the highly flexible bilingual control systems subserving nonlinguistic cues.

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When interlocutor’s face-language matching alters: An ERP study on face contexts and bilingual language control in mixed-language picture naming

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“…More recently some researchers have challenged the ecological validity and generalizability of forced language-switching paradigms (Blanco-Elorrieta & Pylkkänen, 2018). Language switching yields reduced or no costs when it is voluntary (de Bruin et al, 2018;Gollan & Ferreira, 2009;Jiao et al, 2022;Sánchez et al, 2022) and when it occurs in more naturalistic contexts (Blanco-Elorrieta & Pylkkänen, 2017). Thus, language switching may not accurately reflect the typical language competition demands in bilingual language production, especially the implicit activation of the nontarget language in a unilingual language production context.…”

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Individual differences in L2 proficiency moderate the effect of L1 translation knowledge on L2 lexical retrieval

Takahesu Tabori,

Pyers

2024

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The effect of translation knowledge on bilingual lexical production is mixed, with some studies showing translation interference and others showing facilitation. We considered the roles of first-language (L1) translation knowledge and second-language (L2) proficiency in lexical retrieval, testing predictions of the competition for selection, frequency lag and activation boosting accounts. In experiment 1, 54 highly proficient Spanish–English bilinguals named pictures of low-frequency nouns in English (L2). Spanish (L1) translation knowledge and English proficiency had an interactive effect on tip-of-the-tongue experiences with increased L1 translation interference at low levels of L2 proficiency and facilitation at high levels of L2 proficiency, consistent with combined predictions of competition for selection and activation boosting accounts. Experiment 2 confirmed that confounding lexical variables did not drive translation effects. By examining individual differences within bilinguals, we found support for multiple mechanisms that play a role in bilingual lexical retrieval that were not evident at the group level.

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“…A prominent bilingual language control model is the Inhibitory Control (IC) model (Green, 1998), focusing on language control in production tasks. The core point of the IC model is that during language production, bilinguals could switch away from a language by exerting inhibition and switch to a particular language by releasing inhibition (Jiao et al., 2022; Liu et al., 2016; Liu, Zhang, Blanco‐Elorrieta, He, & Chen, 2020). Taking the picture naming task as an example, the picture presented on the screen (i.e., an object) can elicit two candidates (i.e., L1 and L2 words, respectively).…”

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The Role of Language Switching During Cross‐Talk Between Bilingual Language Control and Domain‐General Conflict Monitoring

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The relationship between bilingual language control and executive control is debated. The present study investigated the effect of short-term language switching in a comprehension task on executive control performance in unbalanced bilinguals. Participants were required to perform a context task and an executive control task (i.e., flanker task) in sequence. A picture-word matching task created different language contexts in Experiment 1 (i.e., L1, L2, and dual-language contexts). By modifying the color-shape switching task, we created different contexts that do not involve language processing in Experiment 2 (i.e., color, shape, and dual context). Experiment 1 showed overall faster responses (in both congruent and incongruent trials) in the flanker task after a language switching context than after single (L1 or L2) contexts. This suggests that the language switching in a comprehension task affected general monitoring performance. By contrast, the nonlinguistic contexts in Experiment 2 did not affect flanker performance. This provides further evidence for the crucial role of language processing during switching to elicit short-term adaptions on domain-general conflict monitoring. Overall, our findings add to the previous studies by showing cross-talk between bilingual language control and domaingeneral conflict monitoring when language switching occurs in a comprehension task.

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Control mechanisms in voluntary versus mandatory language switching: Evidence from ERPs

Cited by 10 publications

References 40 publications

When interlocutor’s face-language matching alters: An ERP study on face contexts and bilingual language control in mixed-language picture naming

When interlocutor’s face-language matching alters: An ERP study on face contexts and bilingual language control in mixed-language picture naming

Individual differences in L2 proficiency moderate the effect of L1 translation knowledge on L2 lexical retrieval

The Role of Language Switching During Cross‐Talk Between Bilingual Language Control and Domain‐General Conflict Monitoring

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