Conflict monitoring in bilingual language comprehension? Evidence from a bilingual flanker task. Issue 3 (16th March 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Eben, Charlotte; Declerck, Mathieu
• Is Part Of: Language, cognition and neuroscience. Volume 34:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 320
• Page End: 325
• Publication Date: 2019-03-16
• Subjects: Conflict monitoring -- bilingualism -- language comprehension -- flanker task -- conflict adaptation; Psycholinguistics -- Periodicals; Linguistics -- Periodicals; Neurosciences -- Periodicals; Psycholinguïstiek; Cognitieve processen; Linguistics; Neurosciences; Psycholinguistics; Periodicals; 401.9
• DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2018.1537499
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2327-3798

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Conflict monitoring, which is a process that detects conflict and initiates control processes to resolve said conflict, is assumed to be implemented in production-based language control. As conflict monitoring is a domain-general process, it should follow that it is also implemented in bilingual language comprehension. However, conflict monitoring is not explicitly implemented in models of bilingual language comprehension. With a bilingual flanker task, we investigated the Congruency Sequence Effect (CSE), which is a marker of conflict monitoring, in a bilingual language comprehension context. The results showed a congruency effect, but no CSE with the bilingual flanker, whereas both a congruency effect and CSE were observed with a non-linguistic numerical flanker. This pattern indicates that conflict monitoring might not arise in bilingual language comprehension.