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Filippi, Roberto; Leech, Robert; Thomas, Michael S. C.; Green, David W.; Dick, Frederic – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
This study compared the comprehension of syntactically simple with more complex sentences in Italian-English adult bilinguals and monolingual controls in the presence or absence of sentence-level interference. The task was to identify the agent of the sentence and we primarily examined the accuracy of response. The target sentence was signalled by…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Language Processing, Interference (Language), Bilingualism
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Yim, Odilia; Bialystok, Ellen – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
The study examined individual differences in code-switching to determine the relationship between code-switching frequency and performance in verbal and non-verbal task switching. Seventy-eight Cantonese-English bilinguals completed a semi-structured conversation to quantify natural code-switching, a verbal fluency task requiring language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Sino Tibetan Languages, English (Second Language)