The need for executive control (EC) during bilingual language processing is thought to enhance these abilities, conferring a "bilingual advantage" on EC tasks. Recently, the reliability and robustness of the bilingual advantage has been questioned, with many variables reportedly affecting the size and presence of the bilingual advantage. This study investigates one further variable that may aff...

Abstract It has been suggested that multilingualism can lead to increased cognitive flexibility and creativity. No studies date, however, have investigated whether this advantage leads a greater propensity find meaning in different kinds of novel metaphors. This article reports self-paced reading study focuses on such an is displayed by multilingual English speakers, as opposed monolingual spea...

Title of Document: INTERACTIONS BETWEEN LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE AND COGNITIVE ABILITIES IN WORD LEARNING AND WORD RECOGNITION Giovanna Morini, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Directed By: Professor Rochelle Newman Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences There has been much recent interest in the finding of a "bilingual advantage". That is, bilingualism confers benefits on various non-linguistic cognit...

Chinese relative clauses (RCs) have word order properties that are distinctly rare across languages of the world; such properties provide a good testing ground to tease apart predictions regarding the relative complexity of subject and object RCs in acquisition and processing. This study considers these special word order properties in a multilingual acquisition context, examining how Cantonese...

Using four-character Chinese word targets, Yang, Chen, Spinelli, and Lupker (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, Cognition, 45(8), 1511–1526, 2019) Hino et al. Memory Language, 113, 104017, 2020) demonstrated that backward primes (Roman alphabet example—dcba priming ABCD) produce large masked effects. This result suggests character position information is quite imprecisely cod...

Why do bilinguals show an advantage in cognitive control relative to monolinguals? According to Bialystok, it is because they are highly practiced at exercising control, owing to the fact that they constantly select and inhibit words from their target and non-target languages during everyday language use. However, bilinguals not only manage two lexicons, but also two phonologies, two systems of...

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / FirstView Article / December 2014, pp 1 6 DOI: 10.1017/S1366728914000273, Published online: 29 December 2014 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1366728914000273 How to cite this article: MELODY WISEHEART, MYTHILI VISWANATHAN and ELLEN BIALYSTOK Flexibility in task switching by monolinguals and bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language a...

Aims and Objectives: This study investigates the effects of individual bilingualism and long-term language contact on monophthongal vowel productions in English and Welsh. Design: To this end, we recorded the Welsh and English vowel productions of two sets of Welsh-English bilinguals differing in home language use, as well as the English vowel productions of English monolinguals. Data and analy...

Acoustic measurements were made of the voice onset time (VaT) and vowel formants (F,-F)) in French and English words spoken by native French subjects who were highly experienced in English. and by three groups of native English subjects differing according to French-language experience. The speech of monolingual subjects was also examined to estimate the phonetic norms of French and English. It...