Investigating multilingual adolescents’ cognitive and codeswitching performance: an exploratory application of language control models

Thesis

Different interactional settings require multilingual speakers to switch from one language to another (i.e., to ‘codeswitch’) or to speak in one language only. This ability to alternate languages, or adhere to one language, involves a language control mechanism, a core element of Green’s (1998) Inhibitory Control Model (ICM) which proposes to explain how bilinguals regulate control of their language systems. Recently, Green and colleagues (Green & Abutalebi, 2013; Green & Li, 2014;...

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Authors: Zantout, M

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: cognitive tasks; switch costs; Adaptive Control Hypothesis; Control Process Model; multilingualism; psycholinguistics; code-switching; Inhibitory Control; Lebanon; switching paradigm
• Subjects: cognitive tasks; Inhibitory Control Model; switch costs; Adaptive Control Hypothesis; Simon task; teenagers; French; Control Process Model; Narration task; Flanker task; psycholinguistics; language control models; language switching; code-switching; bilingualism; Arabic; young adults; Lebanon; English; multilingualism; language proficiency