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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Bilingualism Research

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  • Code-switching (using multiple languages in conversation) is influenced by social context.
  • Bilinguals must adapt their language control based on the perceived language abilities of others present.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how social context, specifically the assumed language knowledge of others, affects language control during code-switching comprehension.
  • To examine the neural mechanisms (using EEG) underlying this context-dependent language control.

Main Methods:

  • Electroencephalography (EEG) was used to record brain activity in Spanish-English bilinguals.
  • Participants read sentences containing code-switches while interacting with either another bilingual or a monolingual.
  • Off-line judgments assessed participants' sensitivity to the social context's language knowledge.

Main Results:

  • Code-switches elicited an early fronto-central positivity in EEG.
  • This effect was reduced when participants were with a bilingual compared to a monolingual.
  • A late positive complex for switches was smaller in the presence of a bilingual, particularly for participants sensitive to social cues.

Conclusions:

  • Bilinguals dynamically adjust language control based on the perceived language proficiency of their interlocutor.
  • The presence of a bilingual facilitates code-switching comprehension, suggesting activation of both languages.
  • Findings support dynamic control models of bilingual language processing, where social context modulates language control mechanisms.