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Sandoval, Tiffany C.; Gollan, Tamar H.; Ferreira, Victor S.; Salmon, David P. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
We investigated the consequences of bilingualism for verbal fluency by comparing bilinguals to monolinguals, and dominant versus non-dominant-language fluency. In Experiment 1, bilinguals produced fewer correct responses, slower first response times and proportionally delayed retrieval, relative to monolinguals. In Experiment 2, similar results…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Speech Communication, Oral Language, Competition
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Gollan, Tamar H.; Ferreira, Victor S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
Bilinguals spontaneously switch languages in conversation even though laboratory studies reveal robust cued language switching costs. The authors investigated how voluntary-switching costs might differ when switches are voluntary. Younger (Experiments 1-2) and older (Experiment 3) Spanish-English bilinguals named pictures in 3 conditions: (a)…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Older Adults, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language)