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An Investigation of the Multilingual and Bi-dialectal Advantage in Executive Control
| Content Provider | eScholarship Repository: University of California |
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| Author | Antoniou, Kyriakos Spanoudis, George |
| Abstract | We examined the effect of speaking more than one language (multilingualism) or two dialects of the same language (bi- dialectalism) on executive control (EC) by administering seven EC tasks to 46 multilingual, 72 bi-dialectal and 47 monolingual young adults. We used the EC model of Miyake, Friedman, Emerson, Witzki, Howerter and Wager (2000) according to which EC comprises three components: working memory, task-switching and inhibition. We also tested two theoretical views regarding the locus of the bilingual advantage: first, that bilingualism affects specific EC components and, second, that bilingualism has a more general effect on the whole EC network. Miyake et al.’s (2000) model was a good fit to our EC data. We also found that both multilinguals and bi-dialectals had significantly higher EC scores than monolinguals. Moreover, both the multilingual and the bi-dialectal advantage was found in overall EC ability and could not be attributed to a specific EC component. |
| File Format | |
| Conference Proceedings | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6755q2tg |
| Volume Number | 42 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2020-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Subject Keyword | Bilingualism Multilingualism Bi-Dialectalism Typological Distance Executive Control Dialects |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
