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SUBMITTER: Gross M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4753071 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gross Megan M Kaushanskaya Margarita M
Journal of cognitive psychology (Hove, England) 20150821 8
Although bilingual children frequently switch between languages, the psycholinguistic mechanisms underlying the emerging ability to control language choice are unknown. We examined the mechanisms of voluntary language switching in English-Spanish bilingual children during a picture-naming task under two conditions: 1) single-language naming in English and in Spanish; 2) either-language naming, when the children could use whichever language they wanted. The mechanism of inhibitory control was exa ...[more]