Inhibition of non-target languages in multilingual word production: Evidence from Uighur–Chinese–English trilinguals

Guo, Taomei; Liu, Fengqin; Chen, Bingle; Li, Shengcao

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.04.002

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“…The absence of an analogous interaction for intrusion errors – which exhibited reversed dominance effects – implies a different processing locus for these dominance effects. This is consistent with our previous suggestion that reversed dominance effects reflect global application of inhibition to the dominant language (Gollan & Ferreira, 2009; see also Misra, Guo, Bobb, & Kroll, 2012; Guo, Liu, Chen, Y Li, 2013; Guo, Ma, & Liu, 2013; Van Assche, Duyck, & Gollan, 2013)—yielding consistent effects across parts of speech (and, therefore, no interaction).…”

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confidence: 91%

Grammatical constraints on language switching: Language control is not just executive control

Gollan

Goldrick

2016

Journal of Memory and Language

107

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The current study investigated the roles of grammaticality and executive control on bilingual language selection by examining production speed and failures of language control, or intrusion errors (e.g., saying el instead of the), in young and aging bilinguals. Production of mixed-language connected speech was elicited by asking Spanish-English bilinguals to read aloud paragraphs that had mostly grammatical (conforming to naturally occurring constraints) or mostly ungrammatical (haphazard mixing) language switches, and low or high switching rate. Mixed-language speech was slower and less accurate when switch-rate was high, but especially (for speed) or only (for intrusion errors) if switches were also ungrammatical. Executive function ability (measured with a variety of tasks in young bilinguals in Experiment 1, and aging bilinguals in Experiment 2), slowed production and increased intrusion rate in a generalized fashion, but with little or no interaction with grammaticality. Aging effects appeared to reflect reduced monitoring ability (evidenced by a lower rate of self-corrected intrusions). These results demonstrate robust effects of grammatical encoding on language selection, and imply that executive control influences bilingual language production only after sentence planning and lexical selection.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Grammatical constraints on language switching: Language control is not just executive control

Gollan

Goldrick

2016

Journal of Memory and Language

107

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“…While some of these studies have also found no language preparation benefit on switch costs (Philipp et al, 2007), others have (Costa & Santesteban, 2004;Fink & Goldrick, 2015). Moreover, n-2 language repetition costs have consistently shown a language preparation benefit (Guo et al, 2013a;Philipp et al, 2007). So, in contrast with , other studies did find a language preparation effect on different costs and thus evidence for language-specific control processes.…”

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“…A less ambiguous marker for inhibition are n-2 language repetition costs (Declerck, Thoma, et al, 2015c;Guo et al, 2013a, b;Philipp et al, 2007;Philipp & Koch, 2009). Unlike the previous markers, n-2 language repetition costs require three languages to be measured.…”

Section: N-2 Language Repetition Costs As a Marker For Inhibitionmentioning

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A review of control processes and their locus in language switching

2015

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Language switching has been one of the main tasks to investigate language control, a process that restricts bilingual language processing to the target language. In the current review, we discuss the How (i.e., mechanisms) and Where (i.e., locus of these mechanisms) of language control in language switching. As regards the mechanisms of language control, we describe several empirical markers of language switching and their relation to inhibition, as a potentially important mechanism of language control. From this overview it becomes apparent that some, but not all, markers indicate the occurrence of inhibition during language switching and, thus, language control. In a second part, we turn to the potential locus of language control and the role of different processing stages (concept level, lemma level, phonology, orthography, and outside language processing). Previous studies provide evidence for the employment of several of these processing stages during language control so that either a complex control mechanism involving different processing stages and/or multiple loci of language control have to be assumed. Based on the discussed results, several established and new theoretical avenues are considered.

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“…Costa & Santesteban, 2004;Costa, Santesteban, & Ivanova, 2006;De Bruin et al, 2014;Guo, Liu, Chen, & Li, 2013;Hosoda et al, 2012;Linck et al, 2012;Philipp, Gade, & Koch, 2007;Verhoef et al, 2009). For example, Meuter and Allport (1999) required low proficiency bilinguals to switch between naming digits in L1 and L2 according to the background colour of the picture.…”

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The effect of cognitive flexibility on task switching and language switching

Liu

Fan

Rossi

et al. 2016

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Aims: The present study aimed at investigating whether cognitive flexibility plays the same role in language switching as in task switching. Design: Cognitive flexibility (CF) of 52 low proficiency Chinese (L1)–English (L2) bilinguals was assessed by the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task. These bilinguals were then subdivided in 26 high- and 26 low-CF participants. Both groups performed a task-switching (Simon switch task) and a language-switching task (picture-naming task). The former task required participants to press a button congruent or incongruent to the pointing direction of an arrow, while in the latter participants had to name pictures in their L1 and L2. Data and analysis: Both response latencies and accuracy scores were obtained. Afterwards switch costs (i.e. longer latencies or reduced accuracy for switch in contrast to repeat trials) were calculated. Findings: Results of the Simon switch task showed that switch costs for congruent and incongruent trials were symmetrical in the high-CF group, whereas the low-CF group showed larger switch costs for congruent than incongruent trials. Similarly, results of the language-switch task showed symmetrical switch costs for naming pictures in their L1 and L2 for the high-CF group, but L1 switch costs were larger than L2 ones in the low-CF group. These findings indicate that cognitive flexibility can modulate switch costs of two different switching tasks. This is in line with the inhibitory control model and the task-set inertia theory which assume that cognitive flexibility might modulate the symmetry of different types of switch costs via inhibition. This study provides first direct evidence that cognitive flexibility plays a comparably important role in language switching as well as in task switching. Thus, cognitive flexibility can be beneficial for low proficiency bilinguals’ inhibitory control during task switching and language switching

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Inhibition of non-target languages in multilingual word production: Evidence from Uighur–Chinese–English trilinguals

Cited by 32 publications

References 17 publications

Grammatical constraints on language switching: Language control is not just executive control

Grammatical constraints on language switching: Language control is not just executive control

A review of control processes and their locus in language switching

The effect of cognitive flexibility on task switching and language switching

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