Heritage speakers reveal the dynamics of bilingual language regulation

• Hernandez Santacruz, Jasmin ^[1] ; Torres, Julio ^[1] ; Kroll, Judith F. ^[1]
  1. [1] University of California, Irvine

     University of California, Irvine

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Bilingualism: Language and cognition, ISSN 1366-7289, Vol. 29, Nº 1, 2026, págs. 78-91
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1017/s1366728925000203
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• Resumen

  • Bilingual speakers are prompted to remain in a single language, switch between languages, or codeswitch by regulating the concurrent activation of their language systems and adapting to the demands of the communicative context. Unlike studies that compare language switching in bilinguals in distinct interactional and geographical contexts, this study investigates heritage bilinguals who may be required to manage their home and societal languages differently within the course of a day. We examined how this variation affects linguistic and cognitive factors in spoken production. Critically, picture naming in Spanish and English appeared to rely on different mechanisms of cognitive control: greater reliance on proactive control led to decreased performance in Spanish picture naming but increased performance in English. Although convergent with findings that L2-immersed bilinguals prefer proactive control strategies, the findings with heritage bilinguals suggest that recruitment of cognitive control during speech planning is more dynamic than has been previously reported.

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