Gender, Language, and Bilingualism - New Perspectives on the Processing of Gender Stereotypes - presented by Joanna Porkert

Gender, Language, and Bilingualism - New Perspectives on the Processing of Gender Stereotypes

Joanna Porkert

Joanna Porkert
Gender, Language, and Bilingualism - New Perspectives on the Processing of Gender Stereotypes
Joanna Porkert
Joanna Porkert
University of Groningen

Simultaneous bilingual children have been found to show less racial bias than their monolingual peers (Singh et al., 2019; 2020), which was predicted by better cognitive flexibility (Singh et al., 2021). It raises the question whether this can also be found in young adults who are either simultaneous or sequential bilinguals, respectively, and whether other aspects of social cognition, such as gender stereotyping, can also be predicted by cognitive flexibility. To further investigate the relationship between cognitive flexibility, social cognition and the bilingual experience, we set up an English reading EEG experiment. We tested 66 university students who were either Dutch or Spanish L1 speakers. All were sequential English L2 speakers, and around half were, in addition, Dutch-Frisian (n = 16), or Spanish-Catalan (n = 14) simultaneous bilinguals. The stimuli were English sentences with pronouns as critical words (e.g., “The lifeguard threw himself into the water.”). The presentation will discuss the experiment setup, and first behavioural results.

References
  • 1.
    L. Singh et al. (2020) Cognitive flexibility and parental education differentially predict implicit and explicit racial biases in bilingual children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • 2.
    L. Singh et al. (2020) Bilingualism is associated with less racial bias in preschool children.. Developmental Psychology
  • 3.
    L. Singh et al. (2019) Monolingual but not bilingual infants demonstrate racial bias in social cue use. Developmental Science
LALS Seminar Series
Linguistics and Applied Language Studies (Victoria University of Wellington)
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J. Porkert (2024, March 13), Gender, Language, and Bilingualism - New Perspectives on the Processing of Gender Stereotypes
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