Descripción del proyecto
Bilingüismo y fundamentos de competencia general
¿Cómo controlan las personas bilingües el uso de sus dos lenguas? Esta es una pregunta básica en la investigación de la producción lingüística bilingüe. El proyecto DGLC, financiado con fondos europeos, intentará comprender mejor si el control del lenguaje —el proceso que restringe el procesamiento del lenguaje bilingüe al idioma de destino— es una competencia general. En concreto, el proyecto investigará qué mecanismos de control del lenguaje son una competencia general y qué etapas de procesamiento funcional se caracterizan por procesos de control compartidos. Los resultados del proyecto indicarán si el control del lenguaje es una competencia general o no.
Objetivo
One of the major discussions in the bilingual literature revolves around whether language control, a process that restricts bilingual language processing to the target language, is domain general. Due to conflicting evidence in the literature, the general assumption is that language control is partially domain general. However, little to no research has examined what that means exactly: Which of the mechanisms underlying language control are domain general? Which functional processing stage(s) are characterized by shared control processes? These two questions will be investigated in the current project by comparing language control against control processes in progressively more dissimilar contexts across four behavioral and two event-related potential experiments. More specifically, control processes will be compared in similar contexts (unimodal vs. bimodal bilingual language control), different contexts within the same domain (bilingual language control vs. monolingual control), and between domains (bilingual language control vs. non-linguistic executive control). This will allow for an investigation of domain generality across an array of contexts and allow us to examine whether a closer relationship in context leads to more similar control processes. More generally, this project will outline the specific ways in which language control is domain general or not.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
6525 XZ Nijmegen
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