Abstract
ABSTRACTThe present study adopted a face-to-face dialogue approach to investigate the modulatory role of inhibition during quasi language switching. Pairs of Chinese–English unbalanced bilinguals with measured inhibitory control (IC) abilities took turns to talk about assigned conversational topics in three conditions: L2 only (L2-only order), switching from L1 to L2 (L1-L2 order), and switching from L2 to L1 (L2-L1 order). The dependent measure was the number of morpho-syntactic content- and function-word errors made in L2 in each condition. In addition to the conversations, participants completed a Simon switch task to measure IC abilities. Results showed that better IC ability predicted high accuracy in morpho-syntactic content and function words in the L1-L2 order relative to L2-only order. Further analysis revealed that better IC ability predicted fewer morpho-syntactic content-word errors in quasi within-person switching. Hence, IC benefits quasi language switching within dialogue contexts by suppressing non-target morpho-syntax.
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