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A path to the bilingual advantage
- Matching participants (as suggested by Hope, 2015) may be one promising option for research on a potential bilingual advantage in executive functions (EF). In this study we first compared performances in three EF-tasks of a naturally heterogeneous sample of monolingual (n = 69, age = 9.0 y) and multilingual children (n = 57, age = 9.3 y). Secondly, we meticulously matched participants pairwise to obtain two highly homogeneous groups to rerun our analysis and investigate a potential bilingual advantage. The initally disadvantaged multilinguals (regarding socioeconomic status and German lexicon size) performed worse in updating and response inhibition, but similarly in interference inhibition. This indicates that superior EF compensate for the detrimental effects of the background variables. After matching children pairwise on age, gender, intelligence, socioeconomic status and German lexicon size, performances became similar except for interference inhibition. Here, an advantage for multilinguals in the form of globally reducedMatching participants (as suggested by Hope, 2015) may be one promising option for research on a potential bilingual advantage in executive functions (EF). In this study we first compared performances in three EF-tasks of a naturally heterogeneous sample of monolingual (n = 69, age = 9.0 y) and multilingual children (n = 57, age = 9.3 y). Secondly, we meticulously matched participants pairwise to obtain two highly homogeneous groups to rerun our analysis and investigate a potential bilingual advantage. The initally disadvantaged multilinguals (regarding socioeconomic status and German lexicon size) performed worse in updating and response inhibition, but similarly in interference inhibition. This indicates that superior EF compensate for the detrimental effects of the background variables. After matching children pairwise on age, gender, intelligence, socioeconomic status and German lexicon size, performances became similar except for interference inhibition. Here, an advantage for multilinguals in the form of globally reduced reaction times emerged, indicating a bilingual executive processing advantage.…
Verfasserangaben: | Sophia CzapkaORCiD, Christiane Wotschack, Annegret KlassertORCiDGND, Julia FestmanORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-469736 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-46973 |
ISSN: | 1866-8364 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Deutsch): | Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe |
Untertitel (Englisch): | pairwise matching of individuals |
Schriftenreihe (Bandnummer): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe (688) |
Publikationstyp: | Postprint |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 08.01.2021 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2019 |
Veröffentlichende Institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 08.01.2021 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | background variables; bilingualism; executive functions; interference inhibition; lexicon size; pairwise matching; primary school children |
Ausgabe: | 688 |
Seitenanzahl: | 13 |
Quelle: | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 23(2020) 2 , 344 - 354; DOI: 10.1017/S1366728919000166 |
Organisationseinheiten: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Peer Review: | Referiert |
Fördermittelquelle: | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
Publikationsweg: | Open Access / Green Open-Access |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
Externe Anmerkung: | Bibliographieeintrag der Originalveröffentlichung/Quelle |