Abstract Language switching has been one of the main tasks to investigate language
control, a process that restricts bilingual language processing to the target language. In the …

Traditional research in bilingualism has consistently found that switching languages is
effortful, placing demands on neural systems of cognitive control. This finding runs counter to …

To achieve fluent language processing as a bilingual, a dominant theoretical framework
assumes that the nontarget language is inhibited. This assumption is based on several …

Meuter and Allport (1999) were among the first to implicate an inhibitory mechanism in
bilingual language control. In their study, bilinguals took longer to name a number in the L1 …

The primary goal of research on the functional and neural architecture of bilingualism is to
elucidate how bilingual individuals' language architecture is organized such that they can …

The present study examined how reactive control (indexed by switching costs) and proactive
control (indexed by mixing costs) during bilingual language production was modulated by …

Two seemingly counterintuitive phenomena–asymmetrical language switch costs and the
reversed language dominance effect–prove to be particularly controversial in the literature …

How do bilinguals switch easily between languages in everyday conversation, even though
studies have consistently found that switching slows responses? In previous work …

Bilinguals have the unique ability to produce utterances that switch between languages.
Most language switching research has focused on isolated, unrelated items, which …

Theories of speech production have proposed that in contexts where multiple languages are
produced, bilinguals inhibit the dominant language with the goal of making both languages …