Does the bilingual advantage extend to trilingualism?
dc.contributor.author | Guðmundsdóttir, Margaret D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Lesk, Valerie E. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-17T05:50:12Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-02T12:08:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-09-17T05:50:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-10-02T12:08:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Guðmundsdóttir MD and Lesk VE (2019) Does the bilingual advantage extend to trilingualism?. International Journal of Multilingualism. 16(4): 549-562. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17279 | |
dc.description | Yes | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This study examined whether the proposed bilingual advantage in inhibitory control and working memory can be extended to a trilingual advantage, and assessed any age-related effects on a continuum in young adults to older adults. Trilinguals, bilinguals and monolinguals’ performance on the Simon task and a numerical version of the N-back task was compared. On the Simon task, there was no language group difference observed, although the data show an age-related decline in inhibitory control only in trilinguals, but not in bilinguals or monolinguals. No clear language group differences were observed between trilinguals and bilinguals on the N-back task, however an overall trilingual and bilingual disadvantage, compared to monolinguals, was observed. Together the results suggest that managing two or three languages, compared to just one, may have a negative impact on inhibitory control and working memory performance. Importantly, they highlight the need to control for a possible confounding effect of including trilinguals/multilinguals in bilingual cohorts and to ensure that participants in monolingual cohorts speak only one language. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Taylor and Francis | |
dc.relation.isreferencedby | https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2019.1617717 | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2019 Taylor & Francis. The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in International Journal of Multilingualism from 23 May 2019 at https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2019.1617717. | en_US |
dc.subject | Ageing | en_US |
dc.subject | Bilingual advantage | en_US |
dc.subject | Inhibitory control | en_US |
dc.subject | Trilingualism | en_US |
dc.subject | Working memory | en_US |
dc.title | Does the bilingual advantage extend to trilingualism? | en_US |
dc.status.refereed | Yes | en_US |
dc.date.Accepted | 2019-05-07 | |
dc.date.application | 2019-05-23 | |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.type.version | Accepted manuscript | en_US |
dc.date.updated | 2019-09-17T04:50:20Z | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2019-10-02T12:13:05Z |