Bilingual language control across modalities

  • Struys E
  • Surmont J
  • Van de Craen P
  • et al.
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Abstract

Bilingual language control has previously been tested separately in tasks of language comprehension and language production. Whereas these studies have suggested that local control processes are selectively recruited during mixed-language production, the present study investigated whether measures of global control show the same dependence on modality, or are shared across modalities. Thirty-eight Dutch-French bilingual young adults participated by completing two tasks of bilingual language control in both modalities. Global accuracy on mixed-language comprehension was related to mixing costs on bilingual verbal fluency, but only when compared to the L2-baseline. Global performance on mixed-language production was related to forward (L1-to-L2) switch costs. Finally, a significant correlation was found between the mixing cost on verbal fluency and forward switch costs on the comprehension task. The results are interpreted as evidence for the involvement of monitoring processes in bilingual language control across modality. The results also highlight the relevance of language switch directionality.

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Struys, E., Surmont, J., Van de Craen, P., Kepinska, O., & Van den Noort, M. (2019). Bilingual language control across modalities. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 9(4–5), 542–568. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.17020.str

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