Han, Xuran, Li, Wei and Filippi, Roberto (2024) Modulating bilingual language production and cognitive control: how bilingual language experience matters. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. pp. 1-15. ISSN 1366-7289 (Print), 1469-1841 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728924000191)

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Abstract

The Adaptive Control Hypothesis and the Control Process Model propose that bilingual language use in different interactional contexts requires control processes that can adapt in different ways to linguistic demands. This study explored the effects of language experience on cognitive flexibility and inhibition among 41 Chinese–English bilingual adults. In particular, it aimed to investigate the relationship between spontaneous language production (i.e., bilingual conversation and narration tasks) and cognitive control. Participants’ inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility efficiency was measured through verbal and spatial Stroop tasks, and a colour-shape switching task. Overall, it showed that frequent practices of intersentential switching in speech production resulted in significant facilitatory effects in both verbal and nonverbal inhibitory control. This study provides new evidence for the importance of bilingual language experience in adaptive cognitive control in naturalistic speech production and furthers our theoretical knowledge of the relationship between the language system and crucial domain-general cognitive processes.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	bilingual language experience; code-switching production; cognitive control; L2 environment; language entropy
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology L Education > L Education (General) P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > Institute for Lifecourse Development Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > Institute for Lifecourse Development > Centre for Thinking and Learning Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > School of Human Sciences (HUM)
Last Modified:	22 Apr 2024 12:08
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/46796

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