Not all bilinguals are the same: A call for more detailed assessments and descriptions of bilingual experiences

A De Bruin - Behavioral Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
No two bilinguals are the same. Differences in bilingual experiences can affect language-
related processes but have also been proposed to modulate executive functioning …

Ecological validity in bilingualism research and the bilingual advantage

E Blanco-Elorrieta, L Pylkkänen - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
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 …

The concept of inhibition in bilingual control.

M Declerck, I Koch - Psychological Review, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

A common selection mechanism at each linguistic level in bilingual and monolingual language production

E Blanco-Elorrieta, A Caramazza - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

What about proactive language control?

M Declerck - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2020 - Springer
While several reviews provide an in-depth discussion on reactive language control, which is
the language control process that is initiated when the non-target language disrupts the …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the evidence for asymmetrical switch costs and reversed language dominance effects–a meta-analysis

M Gade, M Declerck, AM Philipp… - Journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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 between languages in different interactional contexts? A comparison between voluntary and mandatory language switching

M Jevtović, JA Duñabeitia, A de Bruin - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2020 - cambridge.org
How bilinguals switch between languages depends on the context. In a voluntary context,
bilinguals are free to decide when to switch, whereas in a cued context they are instructed …

The relationship between bilingual language use and executive functions

M Lehtonen, V Fyndanis, J Jylkkä - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2023 - nature.com
There is continuing debate over whether bilingualism can confer advantages in other areas
of cognition. Bilingual language behaviours, such as switching between languages, are …

Inhibitory control of the dominant language: Reversed language dominance is the tip of the iceberg

M Goldrick, TH Gollan - Journal of Memory and Language, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Which bilinguals reverse language dominance and why?

M Declerck, D Kleinman, TH Gollan - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
When naming pictures in mixed-language blocks, bilinguals sometimes exhibit reversed
language dominance effects. These have been attributed to proactive inhibitory control of …