|
Consequences of being bilingual on linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive functions| old_uid | 10394 |
|---|
| title | Consequences of being bilingual on linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive functions |
|---|
| start_date | 2011/11/18 |
|---|
| schedule | 11h-12h |
|---|
| online | no |
|---|
| summary | During the last decades, there was a growing interest in understanding how people can manage speaking and understanding more than one language. In this extensive field of research, we are interested in how early and high proficient bilingualism affects linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive functions. I will present several series of experiments showing some consequences of early bilingualism on executive function, learning, and word and sentence processing. In all these experiments, monolinguals and bilinguals are tested in the exact same conditions, so that differences between the groups reflect the consequences of being or not early and high proficient bilingual.
In a first part, I will focus on the bilingual advantage in non-linguistic cognitive processes. I will present a series of behavioural tasks, showing that bilingualism enhances task monitoring and implicit learning capacities. In a second part, I will present two ERP experiments showing collateral effects of bilingualism on linguistic processing. In one experiment, we showed that bilinguals cannot discriminate between pseudowords and words without accessing the semantics. In an ERP experiment on word anticipation during sentence reading, we observed that bilinguals suffer more than monolinguals in integrating words which are unexpected in the sentence context.
All together, these series of experiments shed new light on the bilingualism advantages in executive control, and on the bilingualism consequences on native language processing. |
|---|
| responsibles | Pélissier |
|---|
| |
|