Are three languages better than two? Inhibitory control in trilinguals and bilinguals in the Philippines

College

Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC College of Education

Department/Unit

Dept of English and Applied Linguistics

Document Type

Archival Material/Manuscript

Publication Date

2012

Abstract

Previous research has established the superiority of bilinguals' inhibitory control compared to monolinguals, but would trilinguals demonstrate even more superior inhibitory control? The study tests the hypothesis that there is no difference between bilinguals and trilinguals due to similar cognitive processes involved in suppressing information from irrelevant languages, regardless of the number of irrelevant languages. Filipino-English bilinguals and Chabacano-English-Filipino trilinguals completed two tests of inhibitory control (Go-No-Go Task and Sustained Attention Response Task). Consistent with the hypothesis, the results show no difference in inhibitory control of the two language groups.

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Disciplines

South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies

Keywords

Multilingualism—Philippines; Bilingualism—Philippines; Control (Linguistics)

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