Han, Xuran;
Wei, Li;
Filippi, Roberto;
(2024)
Modulating bilingual language production and cognitive control: how bilingual language experience matters.
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
pp. 1-15.
10.1017/S1366728924000191.
(In press).
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Modulating bilingual language production and cognitive control: how bilingual language experience matters |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S1366728924000191 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1366728924000191 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Bilingual language experience; code-switching production; cognitive control; L2 environment; language entropy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Psychology and Human Development |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10191911 |
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