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BILINGUALISM-LANGUAGE AND COGNITION
Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages 119-135Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728906002483
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Bilingual speech requires that the language of utterances be selected prior to articulation. Past research has debated whether the language of speaking can be determined in advance of speech planning and, if not, the level at which it is eventually selected. We argue that the reason that it has been difficult to come to an agreement about language selection is that there is not a single locus of selection. Rather language selection depends on a set of factors that vary according to the experience of the bilinguals. the demands of the production task and the degree of activity of the nontarget language. We demonstrate that it is possible to identify some conditions that restrict speech planning to one language alone and others that open the process to cross-language influences. We conclude that the presence of language nonselectivity at all levels of planning spoken utterances renders the system itself fundamentally nonselective.
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