The unpredictable role of language distance in bilingual cognition : A systematic review from brain to behavior
Leivada, Evelina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Filologia Catalana)
Kelly-Iturriaga, Lara (University of Edinburgh. Department of Linguistics and English Language)
Masullo, Camilla (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Itàlia))
Westergaard, Marit (UiT-The Arctic University of Norway)
Rothman, Jason (Lancaster University (Regne Unit))

Data:	2025
Descripció:	14 pag.
Resum:	It has been argued that under certain conditions bilingualism can confer adaptations to the human mind and brain. Among the possible moderators of such adaptations, language distance occupies a distinctly ambiguous role. Equally unclear is the directionality of the effect, as juggling different languages may become more or less cognitively costly depending on how (dis)similar competing alternatives are. If different language pairings entail that a different degree of cognitive effort is needed to manage bilingualism, language distance asymmetries are predicted to differentially contribute to the robustness of bilingual adaptations. In this systematic review and Bayesian analysis, we find strong evidence for a distance effect in bilingualism, but mixed evidence concerning its directionality in terms of being more pronounced in similar versus distant languages. We chart the extreme variability that exists across studies, highlighting the need for developing ecologically accepted metrics of what counts as similar in language processing.
Ajuts:	Agencia Estatal de Investigación PID2021-124399NA-I00
Nota:	Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Distance ; Proximity ; Similarity ; Daptations ; Bayesian
Publicat a:	Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2025, ISSN 1469-1841

DOI: 10.1017/S1366728925100746

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