Lecture | LACG Meetings
How do we control our languages?
- Date
- Thursday 22 September 2022
- Time
- Series
- LACG Meetings
- Location
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 227
Abstract
Speaking involves a set of processes that translate thoughts into words. In order to speak one language at a time, bilingual speakers control their languages by enhancing the target language and/or inhibiting the nontarget language, and by constantly monitoring what they have just said and what they are about to say. In this talk, I will present a series of electrophysiological and behavioral studies, addressing several questions regarding the cognitive and neural mechanisms of how we control our language(s) in use. I will also touch (a little bit) upon the issue of the domain-general vs. domain-specific language control.