Language Control in Bilingual Speakers

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• Professor David Green (UCL)
• Thursday 29 January 2015, 16:00-17:30
• Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

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Speakers of more than one language use their languages in different ways. In some interactional contexts, in some communities, speakers use a different language to each addressee in a conversation though all parties know both languages. In other contexts, bilinguals code-switch between their languages within a conversational turn. Bilinguals may also adapt their language use to suit changes in the interactional context. How is it that they do so? I explore one theoretical conjecture about the dynamics of such adaptation and the attentional states that may mediate it.

This talk is part of the Cambridge Linguistics Forum series.

This talk is part of the Cambridge Language Sciences series.

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