10. An Appraisal of the Bilingual Language Production System: Quantitatively or Qualitatively Different from Monolinguals?
- Tej K. Bhatia,
- William C. Ritchie
Published Online: 3 OCT 2012
DOI: 10.1002/9781118332382.ch10
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The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism, Second Edition
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Runnqvist, E., Fitzpatrick, I., Strijkers, K. and Costa, A. (2012) An Appraisal of the Bilingual Language Production System: Quantitatively or Qualitatively Different from Monolinguals?, in The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism, Second Edition (eds T. K. Bhatia and W. C. Ritchie), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781118332382.ch10
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Syracuse University, USA
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- Published Online: 3 OCT 2012
- Published Print: 7 NOV 2012
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Print ISBN: 9781444334906
Online ISBN: 9781118332382
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Keywords:
- bilingual disadvantage;
- bilingual language production;
- bilingual speech production;
- monolingual speech production;
- post-lexical processing;
- pre-lexical processing;
- word production
Summary
This chapter delves deep into purported processing differences between monolinguals and bilinguals and attempts to ascertain whether they constitute qualitative and/or quantitative changes in the language production system. Lexical processing is probably the stage to which most differences have been attributed between mono- and bilingual speech production. At present, it seems to be clear that even when tested in their dominant language, bilinguals have a less robust and slower lexical access relative to monolinguals; a bilingual disadvantage that has been found repeatedly in a variety of tasks. At the lexical level, bilinguals appear to store words related to the same concept separately for each language. As a consequence, quantitative differences between a bilingual and a monolingual are expected during lexical retrieval.