Bilingual flexibility: The psychology of language control
The Research Unit Bilingual Flexibility – The Psychology of Language Control (FOR 5905) investigates the short-term, situational demands – the task at hand and the social context – that shape moment-to-moment language use, and the long-term learning and developmental processes that shape a speaker’s language balance over a lifetime. At the core of our approach is a novel framework build around three interacting components: an individual’s dispositional language balance, the situational language balance present at the time of language use, and the language control mechanisms that dynamically shift the former into the latter in response to contextual demands – while, over time, situational experience itself gradually reshapes dispositional language balance. Together, this framework offers an integrated account of how bilingual speakers adapt their language behaviour to changing environments and communicative goals.
Coordination project:
MC-BLP: A multicomponent assessment of bilingual language profiles.
Falanga, Koch, Kuhlen
Partner-adapted language balance and bilingual switching in social interaction
Paschmanns, Khalillaeva, Koch, Kuhlen
Item- and language-specific situational language balance
Tabesh, Philipp
The impact of background language on verbal performances and situational language balance
Bohlen, Le, Kuhlen, Schlittmeier
The neurocognitive basis of language control and adaptation
Xharavina, Heim, Koch
How everyday fluctuations in language environment shape shortterm language control and long-term language adaptation
Neschen, Neubauer
The impact of dispositional and situational language balance on bilinguals’ word learning of a third language
Mirza, Roembke, Koch
Language control in the interplay of cross-linguistic transfer and language prediction in morphosyntactic processing for adults and children
Kadenbach, Günther