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Switching Ability in Bilinguals Following Multitasking: Impact of Language Distance
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Aidin Tajbakhsh – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Cognitive flexibility (switching) and control (inhibition) are among widely accepted cognitive advantages of bilingualism. Switch Cost (SC), i.e., the time difference to complete a switch versus non-switch task, is a construct for measuring the switching ability. The need to control the interference and switching between one's languages leads to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language
Evaluating Theories of Bilingual Language Control Using Computational Models
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Lowry, Mark D. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Bilingual language control refers to how bilinguals are able to speak exclusively in one language without the unintended language intruding. Two prominent verbal theories of bilingual language control have been proposed by researchers: the inhibitory control model (ICM) and the lexical selection mechanism model (LSM). The ICM posits that…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Linguistic Theory, Language Processing, Computational Linguistics
Brain Responses to Contrastive and Noncontrastive Morphosyntactic Structures in African American English and Mainstream American English: ERP Evidence for the Neural Indices of Dialect
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Garcia, Felicidad M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Recent research has shown that distinct event-related potential (ERP) signatures are associated with switching between languages compared to switching between dialects or registers (e.g., Khamis-Dakwar & Froud, 2007; Moreno, Federmeier & Kutas, 2002). The current investigation builds on these findings to examine whether contrastive and…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Morphology (Languages), Black Dialects, North American English