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Languages, Volume 6, Issue 1

2021 March - 58 articles

Cover Story: Morphosyntactic tasks differentially impose demands on the cognitive mechanisms underpinning bilingual language processing. We explore the contribution of nonverbal working memory and processing speed on morphosyntactic knowledge for young school-age Spanish–English bilinguals. Results showed differential contributions of nonverbal cognition by language after controlling for age and language exposure. While processing speed and nonverbal working memory were not significantly related to Spanish morphosyntactic performance, predictive relationships differed by task for English. English narrative tasks were significantly predicted by processing speed; however, English grammatical cloze tasks taxed working memory. These findings support the theoretical conceptualization of how bilinguals leverage domain-general mechanisms to support performance on tasks tapping domain-specific processes. View the paper
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