Abstract
In this article, we review studies which investigated the language process of bilinguals by examining how switch costs were incurred in the language switch processes, particularly in language production. We included not only the studies of unbalanced bilinguals and balanced bilinguals, but also voluntary language switching studies. In language production studies, larger costs are observed when switching from a non-dominant language to a dominant language than vice versa in cued language switching studies. However, symmetry language switch costs were observed in the studies of balanced bilinguals and voluntary language switching studies. This paper also deals with theories about the language switch costs: the language inhibition account vs. the response selection account. We tried to apply the results of the studies we reviewed to these theories and to figure out the limitations of these theories.
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