ArticleLinguistic approaches to bilingualism2016
Does Bilingual Language Control Decline in Older Age?
Article in Linguistic approaches to bilingualism, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Language dominance effects on verbal list memory in older Spanish-English bilinguals.Neuropsychology · 2026Article
- A comparison of language control while switching within versus between languages in younger and older adults.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Are Older Bilinguals' Better in Metaphor Generation?Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2023Article
- Within-language lexical interference can be resolved in a similar way to between-language interference.Cognition · 2021Article
- Addressing Challenges in Formal Research on Moribund Heritage Languages: A Path Forward.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Turning languages on and off: Switching into and out of code-blends reveals the nature of bilingual language control.Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition · 2020Article
- Grammatical Constraints on Language Switching: Language Control is not Just Executive Control.Journal of memory and language · 2016Article
- Do Executive Functions Show a Declining Trend in the 50's in Bilinguals? Evidence from Alternating Verbal Fluency Task.Sage open agingArticle
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Abstract
We investigated age-related decline of bilingual language control. Thirteen older and 13 younger bilinguals performed a verbal fluency task (completing the same letter and semantic categories in each language and switching languages after every category), and a non-linguistic flanker task. In letter fluency, bilinguals produced fewer correct responses after switching languages, suggesting inhibition of the previously-used language. However, this testing-order effect did not differ between groups and older bilinguals produced few wrong-language intrusions, implying intact ability to apply inhibition in older age. In contrast, age-related deficits in the flanker task were robust, implying dissociations between language control and domain-general executive control. In semantic fluency, there were no testing-order effects but older bilinguals produced more intrusions than younger bilinguals, and more intrusions than in letter fluency. Thus, bilinguals may flexibly modulate the degree of inhibition when they can benefit from semantic priming between languages, but less efficiently so in older age.
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