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When sentence meaning biases another language: an eye-tracking investigation of cross-language activation during second language reading 当句子意义偏向另一种语言时：第二语言阅读中跨语言激活的眼动研究

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728925000380

Karla Tarin, Esteban Heranadez-Rivera, Antonio Iniesta, Pauline Palma, Veronica Whitford, Debra Titone

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Predicting proficiency 预测能力

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728925000367

Anne Neveu, Dalia L. Garcia, Britney Escobedo, Paulina Enriquez Vazquez, Miguel Mejia, Liv J. Hoversten, Tamar H. Gollan

{"title":"Predicting proficiency","authors":"Anne Neveu, Dalia L. Garcia, Britney Escobedo, Paulina Enriquez Vazquez, Miguel Mejia, Liv J. Hoversten, Tamar H. Gollan","doi":"10.1017/s1366728925000367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1366728925000367","url":null,"abstract":"We investigated which objective language proficiency tests best predict the language dominance, balance, English and Spanish proficiency scores relative to Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) scores (averaged across 5–6 raters). Eighty Spanish–English bilinguals completed OPIs, picture naming, semantic and letter fluency, lexical decision tests and a language history questionnaire. Except for letter fluency, objective measures explained more variance than self-report variables, which seldom and negligibly improved proficiency prediction beyond objective measures in forward regression models. Picture naming (the Multilingual Naming Test (MINT) Sprint 2.0) was the strongest predictor for most purposes. Lexical decision and category fluency were next best predictors, but the latter was time-consuming to score, while the former was easiest to administer (and does not require bilingual examiners). Surprisingly, self-rated proficiency better predicted the OPI scores when averaged across modalities (i.e., including reading/writing instead of just spoken proficiency), and lexical-decision (a written test) was as powerful as picture naming for predicting spoken Spanish (but not language dominance).","PeriodicalId":8758,"journal":{"name":"Bilingualism: Language and Cognition","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143940125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Linguistic characteristics of bimodal bilingual code-blending: Evidence from acceptability judgments 双峰双语语码混合的语言特征：来自可接受性判断的证据

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728925000409

Diane Lillo-Martin, Deanna Gagne, Melissa Avino, Jonathan D. Bobaljik, Susanne Wurmbrand, Ronice Müller de Quadros, Grace Keller

{"title":"Linguistic characteristics of bimodal bilingual code-blending: Evidence from acceptability judgments","authors":"Diane Lillo-Martin, Deanna Gagne, Melissa Avino, Jonathan D. Bobaljik, Susanne Wurmbrand, Ronice Müller de Quadros, Grace Keller","doi":"10.1017/s1366728925000409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1366728925000409","url":null,"abstract":"Code-blending is the simultaneous expression of utterances using both a sign language and a spoken language. We expect that like code-switching, code-blending is linguistically constrained and thus we investigate two hypothesized constraints using an acceptability judgment task. Participants rated the acceptability of code-blended utterances designed to be consistent or inconsistent with these hypothesized constraints. We find strong support for the proposed constraint that each modality of code-blended utterances contributes content to a single proposition. We also find support for the proposed constraint that – at least for American Sign Language (ASL) and English – code-blended utterances make use of a single derivation which is realized using surface forms in the two languages, rather than two simultaneous derivations, one for each language. While this study was limited to ASL/English code-blending and further investigation is needed, we hope that this novel study will encourage future research comparing linguistic constraints on code-blending and code-switching.","PeriodicalId":8758,"journal":{"name":"Bilingualism: Language and Cognition","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143940122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Scalar diversity and second-language processing of scalar inferences: A cross-linguistic analysis 标量多样性与标量推理的第二语言处理：跨语言分析

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-05-07 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728925000392

Greta Mazzaggio, Federica Longo, Penka Stateva, Bob van Tiel

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Language and structure activation explain cross-linguistic influence in bilingual language production: Evidence from within- and across-language priming 语言和结构激活解释双语语言产生中的跨语言影响：来自内启动和跨语言启动的证据

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728925000379

Ioli Baroncini, Jacopo Torregrossa

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Child heritage speakers’ reading skills in the majority language and exposure to the heritage language support morphosyntactic prediction in speech 传统语言儿童的多数语阅读能力和接触传统语言支持语音形态句法预测

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728925000331

Figen Karaca, Susanne Brouwer, Sharon Unsworth, Falk Huettig

{"title":"Child heritage speakers’ reading skills in the majority language and exposure to the heritage language support morphosyntactic prediction in speech","authors":"Figen Karaca, Susanne Brouwer, Sharon Unsworth, Falk Huettig","doi":"10.1017/s1366728925000331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1366728925000331","url":null,"abstract":"We examined the morphosyntactic prediction ability of child heritage speakers and the role of reading skills and language experience in predictive processing. Using visual world eye-tracking, we focused on predictive use of case-marking cues in Turkish with monolingual (N = 49, MAGE = 83 months) and heritage children, who were early bilinguals of Turkish and Dutch (N = 30, MAGE = 90 months). We found quantitative differences in the magnitude of the prediction ability of monolingual and heritage children; however, their overall prediction ability was on par. The heritage speakers’ prediction ability was facilitated by their reading skills in Dutch, but not in Turkish, as well as by their heritage language exposure, but not by engagement in literacy activities. These findings emphasize the facilitatory role of reading skills and spoken language experience in predictive processing. This study is the first to show that in a developing bilingual mind, effects of reading on prediction can take place across modalities and across languages.","PeriodicalId":8758,"journal":{"name":"Bilingualism: Language and Cognition","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143873108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Feeling more in the language used among family and friends 在家人和朋友之间使用的语言中感受更多

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728925000355

Francesca Peressotti, Michele Miozzo

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Thalamus as a neural marker of cognitive reserve in bilinguals with frontotemporal dementia 丘脑作为额颞叶痴呆双语者认知储备的神经标志物

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1017/s136672892500015x

Nithin Thanissery, Faheem Arshad, Sunil Kumar Khokhar, Raghavendra Kenchaiah, Vikram Singh, Subasree Ramakrishnan, Jitender Saini, Narayanan Srinivasan, Bapi Raju Surampudi, Suvarna Alladi

{"title":"Thalamus as a neural marker of cognitive reserve in bilinguals with frontotemporal dementia","authors":"Nithin Thanissery, Faheem Arshad, Sunil Kumar Khokhar, Raghavendra Kenchaiah, Vikram Singh, Subasree Ramakrishnan, Jitender Saini, Narayanan Srinivasan, Bapi Raju Surampudi, Suvarna Alladi","doi":"10.1017/s136672892500015x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s136672892500015x","url":null,"abstract":"Bilingualism delays the onset of dementia symptoms and contributes to cognitive reserve. However, the neural basis of this mechanism remains elusive. The few studies that have investigated neural mechanisms of cognitive reserve and bilingualism have focused on Alzheimer’s disease. This study investigated the neural basis of cognitive reserve among persons with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) using regional brain volumes. Sixty-eight persons with FTD (42 bilinguals and 26 monolinguals) were included. After propensity score matching for age, sex, education, FTD subtype and clinical severity, there were 26 bilinguals and 26 monolinguals. The results showed that bilinguals had reduced thalamic volume compared to monolinguals despite having similar cognitive performance. The results indicate that bilinguals were able to tolerate more severe atrophy compared to monolinguals while maintaining comparable cognitive abilities. Our study therefore suggests that bilingualism contributes to cognitive reserve in persons with FTD.","PeriodicalId":8758,"journal":{"name":"Bilingualism: Language and Cognition","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143858225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Reading comprehension of children acquiring a transparent language as L2: A study with the simple view of reading model 儿童习得透明语言作为第二语言的阅读理解：基于简单阅读模型的研究

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728925000318

Chiara Valeria Marinelli, Marika Iaia, Pierluigi Zoccolotti, Daniele Romano, Daniela Traficante, Rosalinda Cassibba, Francesca Vizzi, Paola Angelelli

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Is interpreter advantage a gift or an effect of training? Cognitive changes and interpreting acquisition at the early stage of training 口译优势是天赋还是训练的结果？训练早期的认知变化与口译习得

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.1017/s136672892500032x

Xueni Zhang, Binghan Zheng, Rui Wang, Haoshen He

{"title":"Is interpreter advantage a gift or an effect of training? Cognitive changes and interpreting acquisition at the early stage of training","authors":"Xueni Zhang, Binghan Zheng, Rui Wang, Haoshen He","doi":"10.1017/s136672892500032x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s136672892500032x","url":null,"abstract":"Simultaneous interpreting (SI) is an intensive multitasking activity that requires coordination of a variety of linguistic and cognitive control mechanisms. Research has shown that interpreters perform better in tasks that require domain-general executive functions (EF), but the question remains whether such cognitive alternation is a result of interpreting experience or it reflects a selection bias that only cognitively capable people are recruited and trained to be interpreters. We examined the cognitive changes experienced by beginner-level students engaged in an intensive, two-week interpreting training programme. Our findings show that: (a) only cognitive flexibility was enhanced by training, together with improvement in SI performance; (b) the three EF subcomponents in their pre-existing forms negatively correlated with training gains; and (c) only pre-existing cognitive flexibility was positively associated with improvement in SI performance. Findings were discussed regarding the relationship between cognitive abilities and the early-stage acquisition of interpreting.","PeriodicalId":8758,"journal":{"name":"Bilingualism: Language and Cognition","volume":"217 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143819205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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