Language control in bilingual productionInsights from error rate and error type in sentence production
- Clara D. Martin
- Nazbanou Nozari
ISSN: 1366-7289
Año de publicación: 2021
Volumen: 24
Número: 2
Páginas: 374-388
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Bilingualism: Language and cognition
Resumen
Most research showing that cognates are named faster than non-cognates has focused on isolated word production which might not realistically reflect cognitive demands in sentence production. Here, we explored whether cognates elicit interference by examining error rates during sentence production, and how this interference is resolved by language control mechanisms. Twenty highly proficient Spanish–English bilinguals described visual scenes with sentence structures ‘NP1-verb-NP2’ (NP = noun-phrase). Half the nouns and half the verbs were cognates and two manipulations created high control demands. Both situations that demanded higher inhibitory control pushed the cognate effect from facilitation towards interference. These findings suggest that cognates, similar to phonologically similar words within a language, can induce not only facilitation but robust interference.