The Effect of Phonetic Similarity on Domain-General Executive Control in Color-Shape Task: Evidence from Cantonese-Mandarin and Beijing-Dialect-Mandarin Bidialectals

The present study was carried out to investigate whether bidialectals have a similar advantage in domain-general executive function as bilinguals and if so whether the phonetic similarity between two different dialects can modulate the executive function performance in the conflicting-switching task...

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Published in:Journal of psycholinguistic research 2023-10, Vol.52 (5), p.1855-1874
Main Authors: Lu, Aitao, Liu, Siyi, Zhang, Jijia, Zhang, Meifang, Song, Tianhua, Wang, Lu, Wang, Xuebin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Beijing
Cantonese
Chinese languages
Cognitive Psychology
Color
Dialects
Executive Function
Humans
Language
Mandarin
Multilingualism
Native Speakers
Phonetics
Phonological similarity
Phonology
Psycholinguistics
Psychology
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Summary:The present study was carried out to investigate whether bidialectals have a similar advantage in domain-general executive function as bilinguals and if so whether the phonetic similarity between two different dialects can modulate the executive function performance in the conflicting-switching task. The results showed that the latencies for switching trials in mixed block (SMs) were longest, non-switching trials in mixed block (NMs) were medium, and non-switching trials in pure block (NPs) were the shortest in the conflict-switching task in all three groups of participants. Importantly, the difference between NPs and NMs varied as a function of phonetic similarity between two dialects with Cantonese-Mandarin bidialectal speakers being the minimum, Beijing-dialect-Mandarin bidialectals medium, and Mandarin native speakers maximum. These results provide strong evidence that there is an advantage in balanced bidialectals’s executive function which is modulated by the phonetic similarity between two dialects suggesting that phonetic similarity plays an important role in domain-general executive function.
ISSN:0090-6905
1573-6555
1573-6555
DOI:10.1007/s10936-023-09958-z