Low inhibitory skill leads to non-native perception and production in bilinguals’ native language
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Low inhibitory skill leads to non-native perception and production in bilinguals' native language
Learning a second language influences speakers’ first language, but there is great variability in the degree of influence that speakers exhibit. We show that some of this variability is due to individual differences in inhibitory skill. Particularly, we propose that poorer inhibitory skill leads to greater activation of competing items from the language not in use, and that this greater co-acti...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Phonetics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0095-4470
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2013.06.002