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Voluntary language switching: When and why do bilinguals switch between their languages?

open access: yesJournal of Memory and Language, 2018
Available online 18 Jul ...
de Bruin, Angela   +2 more
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Examining Language Switching and Cognitive Control Through the Adaptive Control Hypothesis

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Increasing evidence suggests that language switching is a distinct form of bilingual language control that engages cognitive control. The most relevant and widely discussed framework is the Adaptive Control Hypothesis.
Gabrielle Lai, Beth A. O’Brien
doaj   +3 more sources

Qualitative differences between bilingual language control and executive control: evidence from task switching

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2012
Previous research has shown that highly-proficient bilinguals have comparable switch costs in both directions when they switch between languages (L1 and L2), the so called ‘symmetrical switch cost’ effect. Interestingly, the same symmetry is also present
Marco eCalabria   +4 more
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Code-Switching in the University Level Students of Bangladesh: An Empirical Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The motto of this research article is to present how Bangladeshi University students use the mixture of both English and Bengali language as their spoken language.
Amin, Md Ruhul
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Inter and intrasentential code switching among late bilinguals

open access: yesZanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2021
This study investigates intersentential and intrasentential code switching among late bilinguals among the Kurdish bilinguals. enormous studies have been conducted on the impact of age of language acquisition on learning second language, however a ...
Barzan Jaafar Ali
doaj   +1 more source

A domain-general monitoring account of language switching in recognition tasks : evidence for adaptive control [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Language switching experience is assumed to have an effect on domain-general control abilities in bilinguals, but previous studies on the relationship between these two variables have generated mixed results. The present study investigated the effects of
Kepinska, Olga   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Language Switching Makes Pronunciation Less Nativelike [PDF]

open access: yesPsychological Science, 2014
It is well known that multilingual speakers’ nonnative productions are accented. Do these deviations from monolingual productions simply reflect the mislearning of nonnative sound categories, or can difficulties in processing speech sounds also contribute to a speaker’s accent?
Goldrick, Matthew   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

On the Nature of the Word-Reduction Phenomenon: The Contribution of Bilingualism

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2019
Word reduction refers to how predictable words are shortened in features such as duration, intensity, or pitch. However, its origin is still unclear: Are words reduced because it is the second time that conceptual representations are activated, or ...
Sara Rodriguez-Cuadrado   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Switching Languages, Switching Palabras (Words): An Electrophysiological Study of Code Switching [PDF]

open access: yesBrain and Language, 2002
Switching languages has often been associated with a processing cost. In this study, the authors used event-related potentials to compare switches between two languages with within-language lexical switches as bilinguals read for comprehension. Stimuli included English sentences and idioms ending either with the expected English words, their Spanish ...
Federmeier, Kara D.   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Is there a relationship between language switching and executive functions in bilingualism? Introducing a within-group analysis approach

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2011
Several studies have suggested a bilingual advantage in executive functions, presumably due to bilinguals’ massive practice with language switching that requires executive resources, but the results are still somewhat controversial.
Anna eSoveri   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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