In this paper, we explore the role of cognition in bilingual syntactic processing by employing a structural priming paradigm. A group of Norwegian-English bilingual children and an age-matched group of Norwegian monolingual children were tested in a priming task that included both a within-language and a between-language priming condition. Results show that the priming effect between-language was not significantly smaller than the effect within-language. We argue that this is because language control mechanisms do not affect the access to the shared grammar. In addition, we investigate the interaction between the children’s performance in the priming task and in a non-linguistic cognitive task and find that the two measures are not correlated; however, we find a correlation between the cognitive task and language control, which we measured by counting the number of trials produced in the non-target language. Our findings suggest that language control and domain-general executive control overlap only partially.

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探索认知控制在句法加工中的作用

在本文中，我们通过采用结构启动范式探索认知在双语句法处理中的作用。一组挪威英语双语儿童和一组年龄匹配的挪威单语儿童接受了一项启动任务的测试，该任务包括语言内启动条件和语言间启动条件。结果表明，语言间的启动效应并不显着小于语言内的效应。我们认为这是因为语言控制机制不影响对共享语法的访问。此外，我们调查了儿童在启动任务和非语言认知任务中的表现之间的相互作用，发现这两种措施不相关；然而，我们发现认知任务和语言控制之间存在相关性，我们通过计算非目标语言产生的试验次数来衡量。我们的研究结果表明，语言控制和域一般执行控制仅部分重叠。