Interactional context mediates the consequences of bilingualism for language and cognition.

ABSTRACT: Proficient bilinguals use two languages actively, but the contexts in which they do so may differ dramatically. The present study asked what consequences the contexts of language use hold for the way in which cognitive resources modulate language abilities. Three groups of speakers were compared, all of whom were highly proficient Spanish-English bilinguals who differed with respect to the contexts in which they used the two languages in their everyday lives. They performed two lexical production tasks and the "AX" variant of the Continuous Performance Task (AX-CPT), a nonlinguistic measure of cognitive control. Results showed that lexical access in each language, and how it related to cognitive control ability, depended on whether bilinguals used their languages separately or interchangea

SUBMITTER: Beatty-Martinez AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7117987 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature