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Hernández, Arturo E. and Kathryn Kohnert. 2015. Investigations into the locus of language-switching costs in older adult bilinguals. Bilingualism 18 (1) : 51–64.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | code-switching | old age | task-dependency of processing

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study shows that transient and sustained language switching costs differ across languages and age groups, with a slowing effect for older adults (65+). Findings also point out interesting task-depending contrasts in sustained and transient language switching.