Visual Cues for Language Selection in Bilinguals

Hartsuiker, Robert J.

doi:10.1007/978-81-322-2443-3_8

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“…Nevertheless, the prolonged RTs may reflect the difficulty in selection which resulted from additional activation of the competitive language. Our results are coherent with the idea that language context, such as faces associated with a certain social-cultural identity, affects language production (e.g., Blanco-Elorrieta & Pylkkänen, 2017; Hartsuiker, 2015; Li, Yang, Scherf & Li, 2013; Liu, Timmer, Jiao, Yuan & Wang, 2019).…”

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confidence: 89%

“…To this end, we experimentally created laboratory paradigms inspired by real-life scenarios where language intrusions are likely to happen due to priming of the nontarget language at the conceptual level rather than the lexical level. For that, we manipulated the language context, which presumably will affect language activation in bilingual speech production (see Hartsuiker, 2015, for a review).…”

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confidence: 99%

Language selection contributes to intrusion errors in speaking: Evidence from picture naming

2019

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Bilinguals usually select the right language to speak for the particular context they are in, but sometimes the nontarget language intrudes. Despite a large body of research into language selection and language control, it remains unclear where intrusion errors originate from. These errors may be due to incorrect selection of the nontarget language at the conceptual level, or be a consequence of erroneous word selection (despite correct language selection) at the lexical level. We examined the former possibility in two language switching experiments using a manipulation that supposedly affects language selection on the conceptual level, namely whether the conversational language context was associated with the target language (congruent) or with the alternative language (incongruent) on a trial. Both experiments showed that language intrusion errors occurred more often in incongruent than in congruent contexts, providing converging evidence that language selection during concept preparation is one driving force behind language intrusion.

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“…Hartsuiker ( 2015 ) reviewing work on the issue of culture/visual cues and language co-activation proposes that it is still not clear if there is just interference (as in Zhang et al, 2013 ), facilitation (Li et al, 2013 ) or both facilitation and interference in such tasks. This has been partly the situation because Zhang et al ( 2013 ) did not check the influence of English primes on English production.…”

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Iconic Native Culture Cues Inhibit Second Language Production in a Non-immigrant Population: Evidence from Bengali-English Bilinguals

2016

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We examined if iconic pictures belonging to one's native culture interfere with second language production in bilinguals in an object naming task. Bengali-English bilinguals named pictures in both L1 and L2 against iconic cultural images representing Bengali culture or neutral images. Participants named in both “Blocked” and “Mixed” language conditions. In both conditions, participants were significantly slower in naming in English when the background was an iconic Bengali culture picture than a neutral image. These data suggest that native language culture cues lead to activation of the L1 lexicon that competed against L2 words creating an interference. These results provide further support to earlier observations where such culture related interference has been observed in bilingual language production. We discuss the results in the context of cultural influence on the psycholinguistic processes in bilingual object naming.

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“…Results obtained with the cued language-switching paradigm should be particularly relevant in explaining the mechanisms involved in such naturally occurring situations. Research has shown that bilinguals may benefit from using the language associated with an interlocutor or their apparent cultural identity as a cue to use one language and not another (Blanco-Elorrieta & Pylkkänen, 2015;Hartsuiker, 2015;Li, Yang, Scherf, & Li, 2013;Liu, Timmer, Jiao, Yuan, & Wang, 2019;Martin, Molnar, & Carreiras, 2016;Woumans et al, 2015). At the neurophysiological level, interlocutor identity has indeed been found to be represented in a sustained fashion during the planning stages that precede speech onset (Blanco-Elorrieta & Pylkkänen, 2017).…”

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Bilingual switching between languages and listeners: Insights from immersive virtual reality

Peeters

2020

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Perhaps the main advantage of being bilingual is the capacity to communicate with interlocutors that have different language backgrounds. In the life of a bilingual, switching interlocutors hence sometimes involves switching languages. We know that the capacity to switch from one language to another is supported by control mechanisms, such as task-set reconfiguration. This study investigates whether similar neurophysiological mechanisms support bilingual switching between different listeners, within and across languages. A group of 48 unbalanced Dutch-English bilinguals named pictures for two monolingual Dutch and two monolingual English life-size virtual listeners in an immersive virtual reality environment. In terms of reaction times, switching languages came at a cost over and above the significant cost of switching from one listener to another. Analysis of event-related potentials showed similar electrophysiological correlates for switching listeners and switching languages. However, it was found that having to switch listeners and languages at the same time delays the onset of lexical processes more than a switch between listeners within the same language. Findings are interpreted in light of the interplay between proactive (sustained inhibition) and reactive (task-set reconfiguration) control in bilingual speech production. It is argued that a possible bilingual advantage in executive control may not be due to the process of switching per se. This study paves the way for the study of bilingual language switching in ecologically valid, naturalistic, experimental settings. 1.1. Language switching: switch costs and reversed language dominance Bilinguals' ability to switch languages on the basis of an external cue has been investigated extensively in studies using the cued languageswitching paradigm (

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“…Many times this choice depends on the person to whom the speech is addressed. Language selection is influenced by both top-down and bottom-up factors [2],[3],[4]. Apart from direct interlocutors, language choice is often driven by other agents' choices and actions.…”

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Task Irrelevant External Cues Can Influence Language Selection in Voluntary Object Naming: Evidence from Hindi-English Bilinguals

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We examined if external cues such as other agents' actions can influence the choice of language during voluntary and cued object naming in bilinguals in three experiments. Hindi–English bilinguals first saw a cartoon waving at a color patch. They were then asked to either name a picture in the language of their choice (voluntary block) or to name in the instructed language (cued block). The colors waved at by the cartoon were also the colors used as language cues (Hindi or English). We compared the influence of the cartoon’s choice of color on naming when speakers had to indicate their choice explicitly before naming (Experiment 1) as opposed to when they named directly on seeing the pictures (Experiment 2 and 3). Results showed that participants chose the language indicated by the cartoon greater number of times (Experiment 1 and 3). Speakers also switched significantly to the language primed by the cartoon greater number of times (Experiment 1 and 2). These results suggest that choices leading to voluntary action, as in the case of object naming can be influenced significantly by external non-linguistic cues. Importantly, these symbolic influences can work even when other agents are merely indicating their choices and are not interlocutors in bilingual communication.

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Visual Cues for Language Selection in Bilinguals

Cited by 17 publications

References 35 publications

Language selection contributes to intrusion errors in speaking: Evidence from picture naming

Iconic Native Culture Cues Inhibit Second Language Production in a Non-immigrant Population: Evidence from Bengali-English Bilinguals

Bilingual switching between languages and listeners: Insights from immersive virtual reality

Task Irrelevant External Cues Can Influence Language Selection in Voluntary Object Naming: Evidence from Hindi-English Bilinguals

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