Dias Patricia, Villameriel Saúl, Giezen Marcel R, Costello Brendan, Carreiras Manuel
BCBL - Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2017 Nov;43(11):1828-1834. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000402. Epub 2017 Mar 23.
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
本研究调查了双语者在语言产出过程中的语言控制是否能跨模态泛化,以及语言控制系统在多大程度上受到对相同发音器官竞争的影响。使用线索化语言切换范式,我们研究了听障手语者在口语和手语之间切换时是否会出现切换代价。结果显示,双语者在反应时间(RT)和准确性上存在不对称的切换代价,(占主导地位的)口语的代价更大。我们的研究结果表明,双语者和单语者在语言选择机制上存在重要的相似之处,竞争发生在语音层面之外的多个层面。(《心理学文摘数据库记录》 )