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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Bilingualism Research

Background:

  • Multilinguals frequently switch between languages.
  • The extent to which proactive language control is used to minimize interference from non-target languages during switching remains an open question.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether bilinguals employ anticipatory or proactive language control mechanisms.
  • To determine if predictable language sequences facilitate language switching by reducing interference.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted with unbalanced German-English bilinguals.
  • Participants named pictures in their first language (L1) or second language (L2) within mixed blocks.
  • Performance in unpredictable blocks was compared to predictable blocks to assess predictability benefits, controlling for practice effects.

Main Results:

  • Experiments 1 and 2 showed no significant predictability benefit, indicating a lack of proactive control based on sequence regularities.
  • Experiment 3, with a reduced set of items, revealed a limited repetition-specific predictability effect.
  • Findings suggest proactive control is limited and typically requires anticipation of the specific item to be produced.

Conclusions:

  • Bilinguals do not generally use endogenous preparatory processes based on language sequence regularities to mitigate interference.
  • Proactive language control in multilinguals appears to be constrained, emerging only when specific item predictability is high.
  • This challenges the notion of widespread, automatic proactive control in managing language switching.