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Bilinguals using different scripts show altered speech planning. Script differences help bilinguals (bilingual speech planning) select the correct language earlier, unlike those using the same script.

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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Second Language Acquisition

Background:

  • Bilingual speech planning involves managing multiple languages.
  • The role of language script in bilingual processing is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how language script influences bilingual speech planning.
  • To compare speech planning in same-script vs. different-script bilinguals.

Main Methods:

  • Picture-word interference task used with Spanish-English and Japanese-English bilinguals.
  • Participants named pictures in English while ignoring distractor words in their native language (Spanish or Japanese).

Main Results:

  • Spanish-English bilinguals (same-script) showed semantic interference and phonological facilitation.
  • Japanese-English bilinguals (different-script) did not show these effects.
  • Both groups exhibited translation facilitation.

Conclusions:

  • Language script serves as a perceptual cue for bilinguals.
  • Different scripts facilitate earlier language selection in speech planning.
  • Script differences impact lexical access and speech production processes.