The Effect of Phonetic Similarity on Domain-General Executive Control in Color-Shape Task: Evidence from Cantonese-Mandarin and Beijing-Dialect-Mandarin Bidialectals

Lu, Aitao; Liu, S. C.; Jijia, Zhang; Zhang, Meifang; Song, Tianhua; Wang, Lu; Wang, Xuebin

doi:10.1007/s10936-023-09958-z

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“…Another explanation for this processing advantage aligns with the so-called bilingual advantage in cognitive control, which suggests that bilinguals have better domain-general executive controls than monolinguals because of the long-term practice of language control to inhibit the activation of the irrelevant language and resolve cross-linguistic competition (for example, see Bialystok et al, 2008). In addition, it has been reported that this bilingual cognitive advantage is modulated by linguistic distance, as bilinguals whose languages are linguistically more dissimilar exhibit greater advantage in nonlinguistic executive control tasks (Perovic et al, 2022;Lu et al, 2023). Therefore, it is possible that the processing advantage of the Cantonese group found in the current study is due to better cognitive control abilities, which is caused by the long-term practice of controlling two typologically dissimilar linguistic systems than those of the Chengdu group.…”

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Bidialectal variety switching: the effects of language use and social contexts

Zeng,

Shea,

Beckman

et al. 2024

Front. Lang. Sci.

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While previous research shows that bilinguals' ability to mix and switch between two separate languages is influenced by both cross-language similarity and language use contexts, little attention has been paid to bidialectal populations. Given the linguistic and sociolinguistic differences between bilingualism and bidialectalism, it is thus unclear to what extent mechanisms underlying bidialectal variety switching resemble those underlying bilinguals. To investigate the effects of cross-variety phonological distance and variety use contexts on variety switching, we tested two groups of Chinese speakers in a bidialectal auditory word recognition task. Both groups speak a regional dialect (Chengdu Mandarin or Cantonese) as their native language and are also highly proficient in Standard Mandarin. Participants' language background and linguistic experience are collected by a language background questionnaire. Mixing and switching between two varieties are costly for bidialectal speakers in comprehension. Mixing costs can be attributed to variety switches instead of the mere presence of a mixed-variety context. While variety switch and mixing costs are not influenced by cross-variety phonological distance, they are modulated by variety dominance and habitual variety use contexts. This study highlights the similarities between bidialectals and bilinguals in language processing, as well as the significance of recognizing between- and within-group differences in conducting psycholinguistics research with multilingual populations.

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confidence: 99%