ERIC Number: EJ969141
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Publication Date: 2012-Jul
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Language Control Abilities of Late Bilinguals
Festman, Julia
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, v15 n3 p580-593 Jul 2012
Although all bilinguals encounter cross-language interference (CLI), some bilinguals are more susceptible to interference than others. Here, we report on language performance of late bilinguals (Russian/German) on two bilingual tasks (interview, verbal fluency), their language use and switching habits. The only between-group difference was CLI: one group consistently produced significantly more errors of CLI on both tasks than the other (thereby replicating our findings from a bilingual picture naming task). This striking group difference in language control ability can only be explained by differences in cognitive control, not in language proficiency or language mode.
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Language Proficiency, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Russian, German, Interviews, Language Fluency, Error Patterns, Linguistic Performance, Task Analysis, Pictorial Stimuli, Cognitive Ability
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