Social-Pragmatic Skills and Length of Bilingualism Predict Inhibitory Control in Children.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

There is conflicting evidence regarding effects of bilingualism on inhibition, and the mechanisms that might underlie the effects remain unclear. A prominent account views additional demands on structural language use in bilinguals as being at the root of bilingual effects on inhibition. In this study, we tested the novel hypothesis that social-pragmatic skills (alone or together with structural language skills) are associated with inhibition in bilingual children.

Method

Parents of 114 typically developing 8- to 11-year-old Spanish-English bilingual children completed the Children's Communication Checklist-Second Edition to index social pragmatics and the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function to index executive functioning skills. The Inhibit clinical scal

SUBMITTER: Slawny C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9927631 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature