ABSTRACT
In today’s world, more and more people have begun to learn a second language. It has been shown that their native language is also activated when second language learners intend to speak words in the second language. Therefore, language control is recruited to resolve cross-language interference. This chapter first reviews the cognitive and neural evidence for bilingual language control and modulating factors. Then, the chapter attempts to address the relationship between the domain-general cognitive control and bilingual language control as informed by behavioral and neurocognitive empirical data. Lastly, the chapter introduces the emerging evidence on the flexible and adaptive nature and neuroplasticity of bilingual language and cognitive control mechanisms.
