“…In addition, a study by Fortkamp () showed that oral production of a non‐native language (English) required both control and regulation of attention, two central cognitive processes. Even in bilinguals, where both languages are fluent, speakers need to exert language control, that is, to inhibit the nonspoken language in situations where they are allowed to speak only one of the languages (Costa, Vives, & Corey, ). Another difficulty, according to Abutalebi (), might be that it takes longer time for non‐native speakers to retrieve the correct lexical terms given that the neural associations between the words and the concepts are weaker.…”