Executive control and lexical access in the Chabacano-Filipino-English trilingual mind

A series of experimental tasks measuring the participants executive control and lexical access were administered to young adult college students. The purpose of the study is to determine whether there was a difference between the 104 Filipino-English bilinguals and the 106 Chabacano- Filipino-Englis...

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spelling oai:animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph:etd_doctoral-12882024-02-15T06:45:54Z Executive control and lexical access in the Chabacano-Filipino-English trilingual mind Madrazo, Arnel A series of experimental tasks measuring the participants executive control and lexical access were administered to young adult college students. The purpose of the study is to determine whether there was a difference between the 104 Filipino-English bilinguals and the 106 Chabacano- Filipino-English trilinguals in executive control and lexical access. Conflict is essential in explaining why bilinguals can have an advantage over monolinguals in executive control. According to the parallel L1-L2 activation theory, the linguistic levels: semantic, lexical and phonological nodes in the two language representations are proportionally activated, for example in a picture naming task (Costa, Coloma, & Caramazza, 2000). The simultaneous activation of the two language representations results in conflict. This assumption could serve as a basis on the bilinguals’ constant attention to two language representations in daily discourse wherein the bilinguals inhibitory control constantly decides what language to inhibit and what language to activate. Constant attention to two language representations enhances inhibitory control mechanism which is considered to be an executive control but results in less efficiency in lexical access (Bialystok, Craik & Luk , 2008). It was hypothesized in the present study that young adult trilinguals could have better executive control compared to bilinguals because of the additional language representation. The parallel L1-L2-L3 activation may create an increased conflict that could enhance executive control but may result in the decrement in lexical access. There was an indication that young adult trilinguals showed some advantages over bilinguals on measures of interference suppression, particularly in Simon arrows congruent vs. incongruent trials and control vs. conflict based on accuracy. But, in general, there was no difference between young adult bilinguals and trilinguals in executive control (i.e. in Simon arrows control vs. reverse trials in both accuracy and RT; Shape-matching no-distractor vs. withdistractor trials in terms of RT; Go-no-go lure vs. no-go accuracy trials; and SART inhibit accuracy trials. In other words, both language groups demonstrated the same performance in most of the executive control conditions. The similar performance between Filipino-English bilinguals and Chabacano-Filipino- English trilinguals in executive control and lexical access may have brought about by the influence of Austronesian lexical elements (i.e. Tagalog, Bisaya, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Sama) in Zamboanga Chabacano (Frake, 1980, Rubino, 2005 & Barrios, 2006). Consequently, the hypothesized increased conflict may not have occurred among trilinguals and therefore resulted in the negative difference in executive control and lexical access compared to bilinguals. 2010-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/289 https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etd_doctoral/article/1288/viewcontent/CDTG004757_P.pdf Dissertations English Animo Repository Language and languages Multilingualism Bilingualism Lexical phonology Chabacano language Chabacano language--Conversation Philippine languages Applied Linguistics Linguistics
institution De La Salle University
building De La Salle University Library
continent Asia
country Philippines
Philippines
content_provider De La Salle University Library
collection DLSU Institutional Repository
language English
topic Language and languages
Multilingualism
Bilingualism
Lexical phonology
Chabacano language
Chabacano language--Conversation
Philippine languages
Applied Linguistics
Linguistics
spellingShingle Language and languages
Multilingualism
Bilingualism
Lexical phonology
Chabacano language
Chabacano language--Conversation
Philippine languages
Applied Linguistics
Linguistics
Madrazo, Arnel
Executive control and lexical access in the Chabacano-Filipino-English trilingual mind
description A series of experimental tasks measuring the participants executive control and lexical access were administered to young adult college students. The purpose of the study is to determine whether there was a difference between the 104 Filipino-English bilinguals and the 106 Chabacano- Filipino-English trilinguals in executive control and lexical access. Conflict is essential in explaining why bilinguals can have an advantage over monolinguals in executive control. According to the parallel L1-L2 activation theory, the linguistic levels: semantic, lexical and phonological nodes in the two language representations are proportionally activated, for example in a picture naming task (Costa, Coloma, & Caramazza, 2000). The simultaneous activation of the two language representations results in conflict. This assumption could serve as a basis on the bilinguals’ constant attention to two language representations in daily discourse wherein the bilinguals inhibitory control constantly decides what language to inhibit and what language to activate. Constant attention to two language representations enhances inhibitory control mechanism which is considered to be an executive control but results in less efficiency in lexical access (Bialystok, Craik & Luk , 2008). It was hypothesized in the present study that young adult trilinguals could have better executive control compared to bilinguals because of the additional language representation. The parallel L1-L2-L3 activation may create an increased conflict that could enhance executive control but may result in the decrement in lexical access. There was an indication that young adult trilinguals showed some advantages over bilinguals on measures of interference suppression, particularly in Simon arrows congruent vs. incongruent trials and control vs. conflict based on accuracy. But, in general, there was no difference between young adult bilinguals and trilinguals in executive control (i.e. in Simon arrows control vs. reverse trials in both accuracy and RT; Shape-matching no-distractor vs. withdistractor trials in terms of RT; Go-no-go lure vs. no-go accuracy trials; and SART inhibit accuracy trials. In other words, both language groups demonstrated the same performance in most of the executive control conditions. The similar performance between Filipino-English bilinguals and Chabacano-Filipino- English trilinguals in executive control and lexical access may have brought about by the influence of Austronesian lexical elements (i.e. Tagalog, Bisaya, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Sama) in Zamboanga Chabacano (Frake, 1980, Rubino, 2005 & Barrios, 2006). Consequently, the hypothesized increased conflict may not have occurred among trilinguals and therefore resulted in the negative difference in executive control and lexical access compared to bilinguals.
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title Executive control and lexical access in the Chabacano-Filipino-English trilingual mind
title_short Executive control and lexical access in the Chabacano-Filipino-English trilingual mind
title_full Executive control and lexical access in the Chabacano-Filipino-English trilingual mind
title_fullStr Executive control and lexical access in the Chabacano-Filipino-English trilingual mind
title_full_unstemmed Executive control and lexical access in the Chabacano-Filipino-English trilingual mind
title_sort executive control and lexical access in the chabacano-filipino-english trilingual mind
publisher Animo Repository
publishDate 2010
url https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/289
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