A simultaneous bilingual processes sentences in two languages. Which mechanism explains why their syntactic processing differs from monolinguals under high cognitive load?

💡 Explanation

Simultaneous bilinguals rely on shared syntactic processing resources, leading to different processing strategies under cognitive load, because they must allocate attentional resources across two languages. Therefore, syntactic processing differs, rather than exhibiting only lexical or phonological changes.

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