Language control in regional dialect speakers – monolingual by name, bilingual by nature

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ID21697656
AutoresNeil W Kirk (0000-0003-4786-1070, Abertay University, autor correspondente), Mathieu Declerck (0000-0002-7161-2974, Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Ryan J Kemp (Abertay University), Vera Kempe (0000-0001-5649-4351, Abertay University)
Ano2022
Volume25
Fascículo3
Páginas511-520
Data de publicação2022-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBilingualism Language and Cognition (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1366-7289 • E-ISSN: 1469-1841
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1366728921000973
OpenAlexW4200432592
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas57

While research on bilingual language processing is sensitive to different usage contexts, monolinguals are still often treated as a homogeneous control group, despite frequently using multiple varieties that may require engagement of control mechanisms during lexical access. Adapting a language-switching task for speakers of (Scottish) Standard English and Orcadian Scots, we demonstrate switch cost asymmetries with longer naming latencies when switching back into Orcadian. This pattern, which is reminiscent of unbalanced bilinguals, suggests that Orcadian is the dominant variety of these participants – despite the fact they might be regarded as English monolinguals because of sociolinguistic factors. In conjunction with the observed mixing cost and cognate facilitation effect (indicative of proactive language control and parallel language activation, respectively), these findings show that ‘monolinguals’ need to be scrutinised for routine use of different varieties to gain a better understanding of whether and how mechanisms underlying their lexical access resemble those of bilinguals

Cognate · Facilitation · Homogeneous · Linguistics · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Norwegian · Scots · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence