Vandendaele Aaron, Prutean Nicoleta, Declerck Mathieu
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
J Cogn. 2024 Jan 30;7(1):20. doi: 10.5334/joc.332. eCollection 2024.
Prior research has shown that a sentence context can decrease the necessity for language control relative to single word processing. In particular, measures of language control such as language switch costs are reduced or even absent in a sentence context. Yet, this evidence is mainly based on bilingual language production and is far from straightforward. To further investigate this issue in the comprehension modality, we relied on the lexical flanker task, which is known to introduce sentence-like processing. More specifically, Dutch-English bilinguals (n = 68) performed a classification task in mixed language blocks on target words that were either presented alone or flanked by unrelated words in the same language. While overall no L1 switch costs were observed, we only observed L2 switch costs in the no-flanker condition. This pattern of results indicates that the presence of flankers can reduce or even abolish switch costs, suggesting that the language control process can benefit from sentence(-like) processing compared to single word processing.
先前的研究表明，与单个单词处理相比，句子语境可以降低语言控制的必要性。特别是，诸如语言切换成本等语言控制指标在句子语境中会降低甚至不存在。然而，这一证据主要基于双语语言产出，而且远非直截了当。为了在理解模式中进一步研究这个问题，我们采用了词汇侧抑制任务，该任务已知会引入类似句子的处理过程。更具体地说，荷兰-英语双语者（n = 68）在混合语言块中对单独呈现或由同一种语言的无关单词作为侧翼的目标单词执行分类任务。虽然总体上没有观察到第一语言切换成本，但我们只在无侧翼条件下观察到第二语言切换成本。这种结果模式表明，侧翼的存在可以降低甚至消除切换成本，这表明与单个单词处理相比，语言控制过程可以从类似句子的处理中受益。
