Language switch costs have been explored less in receptive tasks than in productive tasks, and previous studies have produced mixed findings with regard to switch cost symmetry and the relationship of switch costs to executive function. To address these unresolved gaps, one hundred Chinese–English bilingual adults completed a bilingual lexical decision task and three tasks measuring executive function, and we used mixed effects models and correlational analyses to answer the two research questions. The results showed asymmetry with larger costs into the second language, but this was qualified by interactions with response sequence effects. No evidence was found for a relationship between switch costs and inhibition or shifting. Together, rather than supporting a model involving top-down control mechanisms as has been suggested to account for switch cost patterns in productive tasks, these findings support a bottom-up, activation-based model of bilingual word recognition and receptive language switching.

在接受性任务中，对语言转换成本的探索要比在生产性任务中的探索少，并且先前的研究在转换成本的对称性以及转换成本与执行功能的关系方面产生了不同的发现。为了解决这些悬而未决的差距，一百名中英文双语成年人完成了双语词汇决策任务和三项测量执行功能的任务，我们使用混合效应模型和相关分析来回答这两个研究问题。结果表明，使用第二种语言时，不对称性的代价更高，但这可以通过与响应序列效应的交互作用来验证。没有证据表明转换成本与抑制或转移之间存在关联。一起，