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This review explores proactive language control, a strategy anticipating interference during bilingual speech. Findings suggest it aids production by restricting native language interference but is absent in comprehension, potentially involving domain-general mechanisms like inhibition.

Keywords:
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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Bilingualism Research

Background:

  • Reactive language control manages interference during language processing.
  • Proactive language control anticipates and prevents non-target language interference.
  • Limited research exists on proactive language control mechanisms and scope.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review prominent markers of proactive language control.
  • To investigate the role of proactive language control in bilingual language production and comprehension.
  • To explore the domain generality and underlying mechanisms of proactive language control.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on proactive language control.
  • Analysis of three key markers: reversed language dominance effect, language-mixing costs, and blocked language-order effect.
  • Discussion of evidence for domain generality and inhibitory mechanisms.

Main Results:

  • Proactive language control primarily functions to restrict first language interference during bilingual language production.
  • Evidence suggests proactive language control is typically absent in bilingual language comprehension.
  • Proactive language control may be partly domain-general, with potential reliance on inhibition.

Conclusions:

  • Proactive language control is a distinct mechanism from reactive control, crucial for efficient bilingual production.
  • The absence in comprehension highlights differing control demands between production and understanding.
  • Further research is needed to confirm the role of inhibition and domain-general processes.