{"pk":29805,"title":"An Investigation of the Multilingual and Bi-dialectal Advantage in Executive\nControl","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We examined the effect of speaking more than one language\n(multilingualism) or two dialects of the same language (bi-\ndialectalism) on executive control (EC) by administering seven\nEC tasks to 46 multilingual, 72 bi-dialectal and 47 monolingual\nyoung adults. We used the EC model of Miyake, Friedman,\nEmerson, Witzki, Howerter and Wager (2000) according to\nwhich EC comprises three components: working memory,\ntask-switching and inhibition. We also tested two theoretical\nviews regarding the locus of the bilingual advantage: first, that\nbilingualism affects specific EC components and, second, that\nbilingualism has a more general effect on the whole EC\nnetwork. Miyake et al.’s (2000) model was a good fit to our EC\ndata. We also found that both multilinguals and bi-dialectals\nhad significantly higher EC scores than monolinguals.\nMoreover, both the multilingual and the bi-dialectal advantage\nwas found in overall EC ability and could not be attributed to\na specific EC component.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"bilingualism; multilingualism; bi-dialectalism;\ntypological distance; executive control; dialects"}],"section":"Poster Session 2","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6755q2tg","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kyriakos","middle_name":"","last_name":"Antoniou","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Cyprus","department":""},{"first_name":"George","middle_name":"","last_name":"Spanoudis","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Cyprus","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29805/galley/19659/download/"}]}