Bilingualism, Executive Function, and Beyond
Questions and insights
The study of bilingualism has charted a dramatically new, important, and exciting course in the 21st century, benefiting from the integration in cognitive science of theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive psychology (especially work on the higher-level cognitive processes often called executive function or executive control). Current research, as exemplified in this book, advances the study of the effects of bilingualism on executive function by identifying many different ways of being bilingual, exploring the multiple facets of executive function, and developing and analyzing tasks that measure executive function. The papers in this volume (21 chapters), by leading researchers in bilingualism and cognition, investigate the mechanisms underlying the effects (or lack thereof) of bilingualism on cognition in children, adults, and the elderly. They take us beyond the standard, classical, black-and-white approach to the interplay between bilingualism and cognition by presenting new methods, new findings, and new interpretations.
[Studies in Bilingualism, 57] 2019. viii, 377 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 7 June 2019
Published online on 7 June 2019
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. Bilingualism, executive function, and beyond: Questions and insightsIrina A. Sekerina, Lauren Spradlin and Virginia Valian | pp. 1–14
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Part I. Beyond simple relations
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Chapter 2. The signal and the noise: Finding the pattern in human behaviorEllen Bialystok | pp. 17–34
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Chapter 3. Variation in language experience shapes the consequences of bilingualismMegan Zirnstein, Kinsey Bice and Judith F. Kroll | pp. 35–47
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Chapter 4. Adaptive control and brain plasticity: A multidimensional account of the bilingual experience and its relation to cognitionAnne L. Beatty-Martínez and Paola E. Dussias | pp. 49–66
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Chapter 5. Comparing executive functions in monolinguals and bilinguals: Considerations on participant characteristics and statistical assumptions in current researchVeronica Whitford and Gigi Luk | pp. 67–79
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Chapter 6. Cooking pasta in La Paz: Bilingualism, bias, and the replication crisisThomas H. Bak | pp. 81–99
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Part II. Language processing
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Chapter 7. Interference control in bilingual auditory sentence processing in noiseJungna Kim, Klara Marton and Loraine K. Obler | pp. 103–116
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Chapter 8. Investigating grammatical processing in bilinguals: The case of morphological primingHarald Clahsen and João Veríssimo | pp. 117–130
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Chapter 9. Referring expressions and executive functions in bilingualismAntonella Sorace | pp. 131–146
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Chapter 10. Language control and executive control: Can studies on language processing distinguish the two?Anna Wolleb, Antonella Sorace and Marit Westergaard | pp. 147–160
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Chapter 11. Effects of dense code-switching on executive controlJulia Hofweber, Theodoros Marinis and Jeanine Treffers-Daller | pp. 161–180
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Chapter 12. Predicting executive functions in bilinguals using ecologically valid measures of code-switching behaviorJulia Hofweber, Theodoros Marinis and Jeanine Treffers-Daller | pp. 181–206
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Part III. Cognition and bilingualism
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Chapter 13. Research on individual differences in executive functions: Implications for the bilingual advantage hypothesisNaomi P. Friedman | pp. 209–222
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Chapter 14. Does performance on executive function tasks correlate? Evidence from child trilinguals, bilinguals, and second language learnersGregory J. Poarch and Janet G. van Hell | pp. 223–236
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Chapter 15. Putting together bilingualism and executive functionVirginia Valian | pp. 237–246
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Chapter 16. What cognitive processes are likely to be exercised by bilingualism and does this exercise lead to extra-linguistic cognitive benefits?Raymond M. Klein | pp. 247–262
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Part IV. Development, aging, and impairment
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Chapter 17. Executive control in bilingual children: Factors that influence the outcomesKlara Marton | pp. 265–279
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Chapter 18. Interactions among speed of processing, cognitive control, age, and bilingualismKlara Marton and Zhamilya Gazman | pp. 281–293
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Chapter 19. Teasing apart factors influencing executive function performance in bilinguals and monolinguals at different agesVirginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Enlli Mon Thomas, Nestor Viñas Guasch, Ivan Kennedy, Cynog Prys, Nia Young, Emily J. Roberts, Emma K. Hughes and Leah Jones | pp. 295–336
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Chapter 20. Proficient bilingualism may alleviate some executive function difficulties in children with Autism Spectrum DisordersAparna Nadig and Ana Maria Gonzalez-Barrero | pp. 337–353
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Chapter 21. Does bilingualism protect against cognitive aging? Methodological issues in research on bilingualism, cognitive reserve, and dementia incidenceCaitlin Wei-Ming Watson, Jennifer J. Manly and Laura B. Zahodne | pp. 355–369
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Author index | pp. 371–374
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Subject index | pp. 375–377
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Treffers-Daller, Jeanine
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFDM: Bilingualism & multilingualism
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General