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A Literature Review: The Comparison Between Bilingualism and Trilingualism in Inhibitory Control
JIANG Yiming, ZHANG Chenze, WU Zhemin, PAN Shuxuan, QIU Yufei, ZHANG Haoruo
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2022.03.004
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Inhibitory control is a core component of individuals’ executive function. The relationship between language acquisition and inhibitory control has been a focus of interest in researches. Still, whether the trilingual have stronger inhibitory control over the bilingual just as bilingualists outperform monolinguists in inhibitory control is a controversial issue in cognitive linguistics and psychology. After searching for the existed researches both in Chinese and English concerning this topic, the authors summarize the consensuses reached nowadays. This paper also points out three reasons explaining the existed divergences, namely task differences, a subject-enrolling paradox, and definition inconsistencies.
inhibitory control, trilingualism, bilingualism, monolingualism, executive function
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