Inhibitory control of the dominant language: Reversed language dominance is the tip of the iceberg.

ABSTRACT: Theories of speech production have proposed that in contexts where multiple languages are produced, bilinguals inhibit the dominant language with the goal of making both languages equally accessible. This process often overshoots this goal, leading to a surprising pattern: better performance in the nondominant vs. dominant language, or reversed language dominance effects. However, the reliability of this effect in single word production studies with cued language switches has been challenged by a recent meta-analysis. Correcting for errors in this analysis, we find that dominance effects are reliably reduced and reversed during language mixing. Reversed dominance has also consistently been reported in the production of connected speech elicited by reading aloud of mixed language par

SUBMITTER: Goldrick M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9983628 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature