Does Integrating a Code-Switch during Comprehension Engage Cognitive Control?

Autor/inn/en	Adler, Rachel M.; Valdés Kroff, Jorge R.; Novick, Jared M.
Titel	Does Integrating a Code-Switch during Comprehension Engage Cognitive Control?
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46 (2020) 4, S.741-759 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0000755
Schlagwörter	Code Switching (Language); Spanish; English (Second Language); Bilingualism; Reading Processes; Language Processing; Interference (Language); Psycholinguistics; Linguistic Input; Language Proficiency; Language Tests; Universities; Reaction Time; Task Analysis; Florida + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spanisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Bilingualismus; Leseprozess; Sprachverarbeitung; Psycholinguistik; Sprachbildung; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Language test; Sprachtest; University; Universität; Reaktionsvermögen; Aufgabenanalyse
Abstract	We investigated whether bilinguals' integration of a code-switch during real-time comprehension, which involves resolving among conflicting linguistic representations, modulates the deployment of cognitive-control mechanisms. In the current experiment, Spanish-English bilinguals (N = 48) completed a cross-task conflict-adaptation paradigm that tested whether reading code-switched sentences triggers cognitive-control engagement that immediately influences performance on an ensuing Flanker trial. We observed that, while incrementally processing sentences, detecting a code-switch (as opposed to reading sentences that did not contain a code-switch) assisted subsequent conflict resolution. Such temporal interdependence between confronting cross-linguistic conflict and ensuing adjustments in behavior indicates that integrating a code-switch during online comprehension may recruit domain-general cognitive-control procedures. We propose that such control mechanisms mobilize to resolve among competing representations that arise across languages during real-time parsing of code-switched input. Overall, the findings provide novel insight into what language-processing demands of bilingualism regulate cognitive-control performance moment by moment. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01