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Filippi, Roberto; Leech, Robert; Thomas, Michael S. C.; Green, David W.; Dick, Frederic – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
This study compared the comprehension of syntactically simple with more complex sentences in Italian-English adult bilinguals and monolingual controls in the presence or absence of sentence-level interference. The task was to identify the agent of the sentence and we primarily examined the accuracy of response. The target sentence was signalled by…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Language Processing, Interference (Language), Bilingualism
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Coderre, Emily L.; Van Heuven, Walter J. B.; Conklin, Kathy – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
Executive control abilities and lexical access speed in Stroop performance were investigated in English monolinguals and two groups of bilinguals (English-Chinese and Chinese-English) in their first (L1) and second (L2) languages. Predictions were based on a bilingual cognitive advantage hypothesis, implicating cognitive control ability as the…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Bilingualism, Native Language, Color