Language control abilities of late bilinguals
- Although all bilinguals encounter cross-language interference (CLI), some bilinguals are more susceptible to interference than others. Here, we report on language performance of late bilinguals (Russian/German) on two bilingual tasks (interview, verbal fluency), their language use and switching habits. The only between-group difference was CLI: one group consistently produced significantly more errors of CLI on both tasks than the other (thereby replicating our findings from a bilingual picture naming task). This striking group difference in language control ability can only be explained by differences in cognitive control, not in language proficiency or language mode.
| Author details: | Julia FestmanORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728911000344 |
| ISSN: | 1366-7289 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Bilingualism : language and cognition. |
| Publisher: | Cambridge Univ. Press |
| Place of publishing: | New York |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2012 |
| Publication year: | 2012 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
| Tag: | error analysis; interference; language control; language mode; language proficiency; switching attitude |
| Volume: | 15 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Number of pages: | 14 |
| First page: | 580 |
| Last Page: | 593 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
| External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 459 |
