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Prefix priming within and across languages in early and late bilinguals

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-02-12 DOI: 10.1017/s136672892400107x

Jeonghwa Cho, Jonathan Brennan

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Phonetic reduction in native and non-native English speech: Assessing the intelligibility for L2 listeners

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728925000021

Gil Verbeke, Holger Mitterer, Ellen Simon

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Semantic processing of iconic signs is not automatic: Neural evidence from hearing non-signers

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728924001093

Emily M. Akers, Katherine J. Midgley, Phillip J. Holcomb, Karen Emmorey

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Assessing bilingual language proficiency with a yes/no vocabulary test: the role of form-meaning vocabulary knowledge

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728924001007

Soon Tat Lee, Walter J. B. van Heuven, Jessica M. Price, Christine X. R. Leong

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Greater sensitivity to communication partners’ perspectives in children learning a second language at school

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728925000069

Valeria Agostini, Ian A. Apperly, Andrea Krott

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Community language exposure affects voice onset time patterns in Spanish-English bilingual children and functional English monolingual children

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728925000045

Robert Mayr, Simona Montanari, Jeremy Steffman, Manifa Baghom

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How language proficiency and age of acquisition affect executive control in bilinguals: continuous versus dichotomous analysis approaches

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728924001019

Lihua Xia, Antonella Sorace, Mariana Vega-Mendoza, Thomas Bak

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Learning L2 grammar from prediction errors? Verb biases in structural priming in comprehension and production

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728925000033

Duygu F. Şafak, Holger Hopp

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Reversal rewards drive language switching during observational learning: Evidence from a dual-brain EEG study

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728925000070

Junjun Huang, Mengjie Lv, Yingyi Xiang, Shuang Liu, Yujing Shen, John W. Schwieter, Huanhuan Liu

{"title":"Reversal rewards drive language switching during observational learning: Evidence from a dual-brain EEG study","authors":"Junjun Huang, Mengjie Lv, Yingyi Xiang, Shuang Liu, Yujing Shen, John W. Schwieter, Huanhuan Liu","doi":"10.1017/s1366728925000070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1366728925000070","url":null,"abstract":"Research on the cognitive neural mechanisms of language control often overlooks the role of rewards. To investigate how reversal rewards affect bilingual language switching during observational learning, we conducted a dual-brain electroencephalography (EEG) study. Participants, classified as direct learners or observers, performed a voluntary language-switching task under dynamic reward conditions. Our results demonstrated that both direct learners and observers exhibited high correct acquisition rates for the switch and non-switch behaviors in both pre- and post-reversal phases. Notably, direct learners and observers showed reduced switch costs in the post-reversal phase, highlighting enhanced language control efficiency. EEG analyses revealed that direct learners exhibited late positive component (LPC) switch costs in both pre- and post-reversal phases, while observers showed LPC switch costs only in the post-reversal phase. These findings support the Adaptive Control Hypothesis by highlighting the adaptability of language control mechanisms in response to dynamic reward environments during direct and observational learning.","PeriodicalId":8758,"journal":{"name":"Bilingualism: Language and Cognition","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143083254","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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Tuning in to the prosody of a novel language is easier without orthography

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728925000082

Kateřina Chládková, Václav Jonáš Podlipský, Lucie Jarůšková, Šárka Šimáčková

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