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On the Existence of Asymmetrical Switch Costs and Reversed Language Dominance Effects – a Meta-Analysis. : Poster presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Virtual Psychonomics. USA.
UniDistance Suisse
- Mathieu Declerck ORCID Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Miriam Gade (Contributor) ORCID Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Medical School Berlin
- Andrea M. Philipp (Contributor) ORCID RWTH Aachen University
- Alodie Rey-Mermet (Contributor) ORCID UniDistance Suisse
- Iring Koch (Contributor) ORCID RWTH Aachen University
- 2020
English
How do people in a bilingual context select the appropriate language, and what is the role of language dominance in this selection process? Two phenomena prove to be particularly controversial in this literature: 1) asymmetrical language switch costs, which entails a larger cost for switching to the more dominant language, relative to staying in the same language, than for switching to the less dominant language, and 2) the reversed language dominance effect, which refers to shorter reaction times when answering in the less dominant of the two languages in mixed-language blocks. Whereas the asymmetrical language switch cost is commonly taken as an index for processes of transient language control, the reversed language dominance effect is taken as an index for sustained language control. In the present meta-analysis, we set out to establish the empirical evidence of these seemingly counterintuitive outcomes using Bayesian linear regressions (i.e., mixed effects model). We obtained little evidence for either effect, questioning these measures as indexes of bilingual language control that have to be explained by theoretical accounts.
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