So the new finding could simply fuel a longstanding debate among linguists as to whether the brain handles language through mechanisms specifically dedicated to the task or through a more general system.
Over the years, a wide variety of different language customization mechanisms have been proposed, ranging from stereotypes, profiles, and metamodeling to domain-specific languages.
Grosjean (2001, p. 2) explains that "the state of activation of the bilingual's languages and language processing mechanisms, at a given point in time, has been called the language mode".
After one more semester of input, learners transitioned once more to a lexico-semantic processing stage (e.g., left inferior frontal gyrus) at which language control mechanisms (e.g., left caudate, cingulate gyrus) were activated.
In this chapter we provide a tour of the most important language customization mechanisms and by means of a unified case study we compare and contrast their pros and cons.
In 2002, Bjarne Stroustrup suggested extending the C++ language with mechanisms for querying the type of an expression, and initializing objects without specifying the type.
Although these subjects were highly proficient at code switching, we wanted to examine the relative organizations of the two languages, so it was necessary to minimize the effects of attentional and language switching mechanisms.
Thus, different language acquisition mechanisms may be active at different points of development.
There is a large literature suggesting that immediate verbal memory performance is intimately related to variations in the functioning of a variety of language processing mechanisms.
