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dc.contributor.authorBoerma, Tessel
dc.contributor.authorvan Witteloostuijn, Merel
dc.contributor.authorBlom, Wilhelmina Bernardina T.
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-24T11:25:49Z
dc.date.available2022-11-24T11:25:49Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-28
dc.description.abstractBilingualism is associated with enhanced switching skills, while a developmental language disorder (DLD) may negatively impact switching ability. However, both studies with bilinguals as well as studies including children with DLD have revealed mixed results. Moreover, the interaction of bilingualism and DLD has not been addressed and the origin of the stronger or weaker switching performance is unknown. The current study aimed to fill these gaps. Monolingual and bilingual children with and without DLD (n = 32 in each of the four groups) completed a nonverbal color/shape switching task when they were 7 to 8 years old, and a Continuous Performance Task two years earlier. The latter tapped into their response inhibition and sustained attention skills, which may underlie switching ability. No differences between monolinguals and bilinguals were found on the switching task. Children with DLD had higher mixing costs than peers without DLD, which was driven by differences in sustained attention skills. These results add to the body of research indicating that the cognitive advantages of bilingualism are unstable. Additionally, the results substantiate the hypothesis that attention processes are foundational for complex cognitive skills, such as switching, and suggest cascading effects for children with weaker attention skills, such as children with DLD.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBoerma, van Witteloostuijn, Blom. Nonverbal Switching Ability of Monolingual and Bilingual Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder. Languages. 2022;7(2):1-20en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2063012
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/languages7020108
dc.identifier.issn2226-471X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/27525
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.relation.journalLanguages
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2022 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleNonverbal Switching Ability of Monolingual and Bilingual Children with and without Developmental Language Disorderen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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