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Title: | An Investigation of the Multilingual and Bi-dialectal Advantage in Executive Control |
Authors: | Antoniou, Kyriakos Spanoudis, George |
Major Field of Science: | Medical and Health Sciences |
Field Category: | Health Sciences |
Keywords: | bi-dialectalism;bilingualism;dialects;executive control;multilingualism;typological distance |
Issue Date: | 1-Jan-2020 |
Source: | Proceedings for the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020 |
Conference: | Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines |
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. |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/33184 |
Type: | Conference Papers |
Affiliation : | University of Cyprus Hellenic Open University |
Publication Type: | Peer Reviewed |
Appears in Collections: | Δημοσιεύσεις σε συνέδρια /Conference papers or poster or presentation |
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