A domain-general monitoring account of language switching in recognition tasks: Evidence for adaptive control

Struys, Esli; Woumans, Evy; Nour, Soudabeh; Kepinska, Olga; Noort, Maurits van den

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“…Macizo et al (2012) argued that competition between the two activated languages was required to trigger inhibition. Several recent comprehension-based studies even failed to find switch costs (Bultena et al, 2015;Declerck and Grainger, 2017;Declerck et al, 2019;Struys et al, 2019).…”

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The Effect of the Non-task Language When Trilingual People Use Two Languages in a Language Switching Experiment

Chen

Liu

2020

Front. Psychol.

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This study investigated the effect of non-task language in a language switching experiment. Non-task language refers to participants' languages (regardless of proficiency level) that are not used in any trials throughout the experiment. We recruited 60 Tibetan-Chinese-English trilinguals (12th-grade high school students with a median age of 17) to perform a lexical decision (word vs. non-word) task in only two of their languages. We repeated the experiment three times to present each language pair once. In each experiment, the participants were divided into two groups that significantly contrasted with each other in their non-task language while remaining comparable in the two task languages. Response time (RT) and error rate (ER) have been examined to evaluate task performance. The interaction between task performance and the participants' proficiency in the non-task language was also examined. The results showed anull effect of language switching. In addition, the effect of the non-task language was not found. These results were interpreted with reference to the main models of bilingual visual word recognition and the role of orthography specificity.

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Section: Language Switching Paradigmmentioning

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The Effect of the Non-task Language When Trilingual People Use Two Languages in a Language Switching Experiment

Chen

Liu

2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…In addition, the bilingual speaker needs to be able to produce or recognize language switches when changing from one language to the other [19]. This extra training in cognitive control skills in bilinguals compared to monolinguals is thought to be the reason bilinguals have this (bilingual) advantage in cognitive control [20].…”

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Does the Bilingual Advantage in Cognitive Control Exist and If So, What Are Its Modulating Factors? A Systematic Review

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Struys

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Recently, doubts were raised about the existence of the bilingual advantage in cognitive control. The aim of the present review was to investigate the bilingual advantage and its modulating factors. We searched the Medline, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and ERIC databases for all original data and reviewed studies on bilingualism and cognitive control, with a cut-off date of 31 October 2018, thereby following the guidelines of the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis (PRISMA) protocol. The results of the 46 original studies show that indeed, the majority, 54.3%, reported beneficial effects of bilingualism on cognitive control tasks; however, 28.3% found mixed results and 17.4% found evidence against its existence. Methodological differences seem to explain these mixed results: Particularly, the varying selection of the bilingual participants, the use of nonstandardized tests, and the fact that individual differences were often neglected and that longitudinal designs were rare. Therefore, a serious risk for bias exists in both directions (i.e., in favor of and against the bilingual advantage). To conclude, we found some evidence for a bilingual advantage in cognitive control; however, if significant progress is to be made, better study designs, bigger data, and more longitudinal studies are needed.

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“…The studies discussed so far focused on the connection between production-based language control and executive control. In contrast, two recent studies focused on whether comprehension-based language control is domain general (e.g., Jylkkä et al, 2018; Struys, Woumans, Nour, Kepinska, & Van den Noort, 2019). Jylkkä et al (2018) tested 51 Finnish-English bilinguals with a Simon, flanker, and task switching paradigm to measure executive control, and a comprehension-based language switching paradigm to measure language control.…”

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“…Struys et al (2019) tested 32 Dutch-French bilinguals with a Simon paradigm and a comprehension-based language switching paradigm. This study focused on correlation analyses to examine whether language control is domain general.…”

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A different perspective on domain-general language control using the flanker task

2019

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Bilingual models diverge in whether they assume that language control is domain general. Most studies that investigated this claim focused on bilingual language production and relied on the comparison between language switching and task switching. In the current study, we set out to investigate whether language control is domain general in a different context (i.e., bilingual language comprehension) and with a different paradigm (i.e., the flanker task). To this end, we let French-English bilinguals perform a bilingual (flankers are words from the same or different language as the target word) and a non-linguistic (numerical magnitude with digits) flanker task. The results showed that there was no difference in the language congruency effect between participants with a high and low non-linguistic congruency effect. These results indicate that there is no substantial overlap in the mechanisms involved in comprehension-based language control and executive control.

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A domain-general monitoring account of language switching in recognition tasks: Evidence for adaptive control

Cited by 42 publications

References 79 publications

The Effect of the Non-task Language When Trilingual People Use Two Languages in a Language Switching Experiment

The Effect of the Non-task Language When Trilingual People Use Two Languages in a Language Switching Experiment

Does the Bilingual Advantage in Cognitive Control Exist and If So, What Are Its Modulating Factors? A Systematic Review

A different perspective on domain-general language control using the flanker task

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