Language switching across modalities: Evidence from bimodal bilinguals.
This study investigated whether language control during language production in bilinguals generalizes across modalities, and to what extent the language control system is shaped by competition for the same articulators. Using a cued language-switching paradigm, we investigated whether switch costs are observed when hearing signers switch between a spoken and a signed language. The results showed an asymmetrical switch cost for bimodal bilinguals on reaction time (RT) and accuracy, with larger costs for the (dominant) spoken language. Our findings suggest important similarities in the mechanisms underlying language selection in bimodal bilinguals and unimodal bilinguals, with competition occurring at multiple levels other than phonology. (PsycINFO Database Record
BCBL - Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language.
Patricia
0000-0002-6920-3100
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Dias
BCBL - Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language.
Saúl
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Villameriel
BCBL - Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language.
Marcel R
MR
Giezen
BCBL - Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language.
Brendan
B
Costello
BCBL - Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language.
Manuel
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Carreiras
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019303:Multilingualism; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011930:Reaction Time; D012813:Sign Language