A Literature Review: The Comparison Between Bilingualism and Trilingualism in Inhibitory Control  

作　　者：JIANG Yiming ZHANG Chenze WU Zhemin PAN Shuxuan QIU Yufei ZHANG Haoruo 

机构地区：[1]University of Shanghai for Science and Technology,Shanghai,China

出　　处：《Sino-US English Teaching》2022年第3期100-103,共4页中美英语教学（英文版）

摘　　要：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.

关 键 词：inhibitory control TRILINGUALISM BILINGUALISM monolingualism executive function 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]