Sentence-level (lemma) processing affects language switching: switch costs occur between sentences and depend on syntactic structure¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · review r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2015 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Language switch costs can be obtained when switching between sentences, with asymmetry depending on phrase type (progressive vs. perfective). → Mathieu Declerck & Andrea M. Philipp 2015 q2 i? No switch costs occurred with syntactically correct sentences in SBLS, while substantial switch costs persisted for scrambled or word-to-word syntactically incorrect sentences. → Mathieu Declerck & Andrea M. Philipp 2015 (2)

Evidence¶

Mathieu Declerck & Andrea M. Philipp 2015¶

Mathieu Declerck & Andrea M. Philipp. (2015). A review of control processes and their locus in language switching. Psychon Bull Rev. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-015-0836-1

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The review reports, citing Tarlowski, Wodniecka, et al. (2013) with Polish-English bilinguals describing pictures in present progressive or perfective phrases, that "language switch costs can be ob- tained when switching between sentences," with asymmetry depending on phrase type. No effect sizes are printed.

"Their results indicated that language switch costs can be ob- tained when switching between sentences (for a similar result within sentences, see Bultena, Dijkstra, & van Hell, 2015). Furthermore, asymmetrical switch costs were obtained with progressive phrases and symmetrical switch costs with perfec- tive phrases."

Mathieu Declerck & Andrea M. Philipp 2015 (2)¶

Mathieu Declerck & Andrea M. Philipp. (2015). A review of control processes and their locus in language switching. Psychon Bull Rev. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-015-0836-1

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The review reports, citing Declerck and Philipp (2015a), that "no switch costs with the SBLS paradigm" occurred for word-to-word syntactically correct sentences, while substantial switch costs remained for scrambled or syntactically incorrect sentences, supporting syntactic (lemma-level) influence on switching.

"Their results indicated no switch costs with the SBLS paradigm when German –English bilinguals produced words in sentences that were syntactically correct when translating it word-to-word to the other language"

Discussion¶

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