Neural correlates for naming disadvantage of the dominant language in bilingual word production

Fu, Yongben; Lu, Di; Kang, Chunyan; Wu, Junjie; Ma, Fengyang; Ding, Guiguang; Guo, Taomei

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2017.10.005

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“…In previous read-aloud studies with Spanish-English bilinguals (Gollan et al, , 2017Gollan & Goldrick, 2016, English-dominant bilinguals also produced more intrusions with English than with Spanish targets. Reversed dominance effects in the read-aloud task are consistent with the Inhibitory Control Model (Green, 1986(Green, , 1998; see also Christoffels, et al, 2007;Costa & Santesteban, 2004;Costa, Santesteban, & Ivanova, 2006;Declerck, Stephan, Koch, & Philipp, 2015;Fu, et al, 2017;Gollan & Ferreira, 2009;Gollan, Kleinman, & Wierenga, 2014;Kleinman & Gollan, 2016;Peeters & Dijkstra, 2017;Verhoef, et al, 2009Verhoef, et al, , 2010; bilinguals inhibit the dominant language, particularly when reading aloud paragraphs written primarily in the non-dominant language, and must release this inhibition to produce dominant-language switch words. The present results build on these findings by demonstrating generalizability to bilinguals immersed in either their dominant or their nondominant language given that both Mandarindominant bilinguals (in the present study) and Englishdominant bilinguals (in previous work) were immersed in English (at UCSD).…”

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Cognates interfere with language selection but enhance monitoring in connected speech

Gollan

2018

Mem Cogn

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The current study investigated the contribution of phonology to bilingual language control in connected speech. Speech production was elicited by asking Mandarin-English bilinguals to read aloud paragraphs either in Chinese or English, while six words were switched to the other language in each paragraph. The switch words were either cognates or noncognates, and switching difficulty was measured by production of cross-language intrusion errors on the switch words (e.g., mistakenly saying (qiao3-ke4-li4) instead of chocolate). All the bilinguals were Mandarin-dominant, but produced more intrusion errors when target words were written in Chinese than when written in English (i.e., they exhibited robust reversed dominance effects). Most critically, bilinguals produced significantly more intrusions on Chinese cognates, but also detected and self-corrected these same errors more quickly than with noncognates. Phonological overlap boosts dual-language activation thus leading to greater competition between languages, and increased response conflict, thereby increasing production of intrusions but also facilitating error detection during speech monitoring.

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Cognates interfere with language selection but enhance monitoring in connected speech

Gollan

2018

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“…Third, all studies were excluded that assessed a language-switching paradigm embedded in other paradigms, such as the Psychological Refractory Period (PRP) paradigm (e.g., Hirsch et al, 2015 ) or joint language switching (e.g., Gambi & Hartsuiker, 2016 ). Fourth, we excluded studies that did not analyse language switch costs but focussed more on interference effects between languages ( Costa et al, 1999 ; Emmorey et al, 2008 ; Fu et al, 2017 ; Gollan & Goldrick, 2016 ; Kohnert et al, 1999 ; Runnqvist et al, 2012 ; Schwieter & Sunderman, 2009 ). Fifth, to stay with one type of response modality, we excluded studies that assessed switching between two languages using different modalities for production (i.e., spoken and sign language; Dias et al, 2017 ; Kaufmann et al, 2018 ; Schaeffner et al, 2017 ).…”

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Assessing the Evidence for Asymmetrical Switch Costs and Reversed Language Dominance Effects – A Meta-Analysis

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Declerck

Philipp

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Journal of Cognition

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Two seemingly counterintuitive phenomena – asymmetrical language switch costs and the reversed language dominance effect – prove to be particularly controversial in the literature on language control. Asymmetrical language switch costs refer to the larger costs for switching into the dominant language compared to switching into the less dominant language, both relative to staying in either one language. The reversed language dominance effect refers to longer reaction times when in the more dominant of the two languages in situations that require frequent language switching (i.e., mixed-language blocks). The asymmetrical language switch costs are commonly taken as an index for processes of transient, reactive inhibitory language control, whereas the reversed language dominance effect is taken as an index for sustained, proactive inhibitory language control. In the present meta-analysis, we set out to establish the empirical evidence for these two phenomena using a Bayesian linear mixed effects modelling approach. Despite the observation of both phenomena in some studies, our results suggest that overall, there is little evidence for the generality and robustness of these two effects, and this holds true even when conditions – such as language proficiency and preparation time manipulations – were included as moderators of these phenomena. We conclude that asymmetrical switch costs and the reversed language dominance effect are important for theory development, but their utility for theory testing is limited due to their lack of robustness and the absence of confirmed moderatory variables.

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“…For instance, in the case of overt speech, gray matter density in bilateral inferior cerebellar regions correlated with the number of words produced during letter and semantic fluency tasks for both L1 and L2 . Moreover, its activation increased when naming in L2 compared to L1 and during semantic processing in cross‐language conditions . Cerebellar regions may help maintain the representation of a sentence during comprehension and aid in resolving conflicting speech inputs.…”

Section: Deconstructing the Brain Basis Of Bilingual Language Controlmentioning

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Neural basis of bilingual language control

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Costa

Green

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Acquiring and speaking a second language increases demand on the processes of language control for bilingual as compared to monolingual speakers. Language control for bilingual speakers involves the ability to keep the two languages separated to avoid interference and to select one language or the other in a given conversational context. This ability is what we refer with the term "bilingual language control" (BLC). It is now well established that the architecture of this complex system of language control encompasses brain networks involving cortical and subcortical structures, each responsible for different cognitive processes such as goal maintenance, conflict monitoring, interference suppression, and selective response inhibition. Furthermore, advances have been made in determining the overlap between the BLC and the nonlinguistic executive control networks, under the hypothesis that the BLC processes are just an instantiation of a more domain-general control system. Here, we review the current knowledge about the neural basis of these control systems. Results from brain imaging studies of healthy adults and on the performance of bilingual individuals with brain damage are discussed.

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Neural correlates for naming disadvantage of the dominant language in bilingual word production

Cited by 25 publications

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Cognates interfere with language selection but enhance monitoring in connected speech

Cognates interfere with language selection but enhance monitoring in connected speech

Assessing the Evidence for Asymmetrical Switch Costs and Reversed Language Dominance Effects – A Meta-Analysis

Neural basis of bilingual language control

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