An ERP study of inhibition of non-target languages in trilingual word production

Guo, Taomei; Ma, Fengyang; Liu, Fengqin

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2013.07.009

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“…Hence, to the extent to which our results undermine the assumptions of IC model, they could be seen somehow in accord with other studies that, even without addressing the issue of the domain-generality of linguistic processes, have nevertheless failed to reveal the involvement of inhibitory control during language control (e.g., Phillip et al, 2007;Runnqvist, Strijkers, Alario, & Costa, 2012;Guo et al, 2013).…”

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On the overlap between bilingual language control and domain-general executive control

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We explored the overlap between bilingual language control (bLC) and domain-general executive control (EC) by focusing on inhibitory control processes. We tested 62 bilinguals in linguistic and non-linguistic switching tasks for two types of costs, such as the n-1 shift cost and the n-2 repetition cost. In order to explore the involvement of inhibitory control in bLC and EC, we assessed the pattern of switch costs in the two tasks and then we correlated them between tasks. Results showed reduced n-2 repetition costs as compared to n-1 shift costs in the linguistic task only, suggesting that small amount of inhibition were deployed when switching between languages. Importantly, neither the n-1 shift costs nor the n-2 repetition costs were correlated between tasks. These results, supported by additional evidence from the ex-Gaussian analysis, suggest that inhibitory control is differently involved in bLC and in EC.

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“…Therefore, we mainly focused on the cue-locked ERPs in the stimulus-cue sequence. Based on a visual inspection and previous studies (Christoffels et al, 2007; Verhoef et al, 2010; Guo et al, 2013), two time windows were selected for stimulus-locked analyses: 200–270 ms and 270–500 ms post-stimulus onset, and another two time windows were selected for cue-locked analyses: 220–320 ms and 350–500 ms. In the cue-stimulus sequence, the time window of 220–320 ms post-cue (i.e., colored squares) onset was chosen for the cue-locked analysis, and a time window of 270–400 ms post-stimulus (i.e., digits) onset was selected for the stimulus-locked ERPs analysis.…”

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“…In this task, bilingual speakers are usually instructed to switch between their L1 and L2 according to a cue when they named digits or pictures. Many previous studies have reported worse performance in switch trials (which used different languages to name two subsequent items) relative to performance in non-switch trials (or repeat trials, which used the same language to name two subsequent items; e.g., Costa and Santesteban, 2004; Christoffels et al, 2007; Verhoef et al, 2009; Guo et al, 2013). This phenomenon is known as switch costs.…”

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“…Hence, it is difficult to distinguish the language task schema competition phase from the lemma selection phase. Recently, Guo et al (2013) reported an ERP study that attempted to investigate the inhibition loci during trilingual word production by presenting cues that preceded the stimuli. Trilingual speakers named digits in one of their three languages according to a cue in the n-2 language repetition paradigm.…”

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“…As mentioned above, most studies have presented language cues and stimuli simultaneously, thus binding the language task schema selection stage and lemma selection stage together (Jackson et al, 2001; Christoffels et al, 2007; Misra et al, 2012), or the studies presented cues that preceded the stimuli, thus causing the language schema selection stage to always occur before lemma selection (Levelt et al, 1999; Verhoef et al, 2009, 2010; Guo et al, 2013). These manipulations failed to investigate the specific process that occurs when language selection takes place after lemma activation in bilingual language production.…”

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Switch Costs Occur at Lemma Stage When Bilinguals Name Digits: Evidence from Language-Switching and Event-Related Potentials

Chang

Xie

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Front. Psychol.

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Switch costs are generally found in language switching tasks. However, the locus where switch costs occur during bilingual language production remains unclear. Several studies that used a cued language-switching paradigm have attempted to investigate this question in bilingual language production, but researchers have not reached a consensus. Moreover, we are interested in where switch costs occur when language selection occurs after lemma activation. Previous studies have not investigated this question because most previous studies presented language cues before or along with the stimuli. Therefore, we used a modified cued language-switching paradigm with a combined event-related potentials (ERPs) technique to explore the locus of switch costs during bilingual language production. The cue and stimulus were separated and presented in two different presentation sequences in which Indonesian–Chinese bilingual speakers were instructed to name digits in their L1 or L2 according to the color of the cue. The ERPs related to the cue and stimulus for two presentation sequences were measured. In the stimulus-cue sequence, the analysis that was time-locked to cues revealed a reversed switch cost as early as 220 ms after the cue onset; furthermore, a switch cost was shown in L1 with a late stage post-cue onset. The results suggested that when language selection occurred after lemma activation, the switch costs mainly occurred at the lemma selection stage. In the cue-stimulus sequence, the analysis that was time-locked to cues did not reveal significant main effects of switching, whereas the analysis that was time-locked to digits yielded a switch cost, again indicating that switch costs mainly occurred at the lemma selection stage rather than at the language task schema competition stage. Overall, our results indicated that when bilinguals spoke digits aloud in the language switching task, switch costs mainly occurred at the lemma selection stage.

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What Do Bilingual Models Tell Us About the Neurocognition of Multiple Languages?

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Legault²,

Li³

2019

The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism

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An ERP study of inhibition of non-target languages in trilingual word production

Cited by 31 publications

References 23 publications

On the overlap between bilingual language control and domain-general executive control

On the overlap between bilingual language control and domain-general executive control

Switch Costs Occur at Lemma Stage When Bilinguals Name Digits: Evidence from Language-Switching and Event-Related Potentials

What Do Bilingual Models Tell Us About the Neurocognition of Multiple Languages?

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