Until recently, researchers thought the bilingual advantage stemmed primarily from an ability for inhibition that was honed by the exercise of suppressing one language system: this suppression, it was thought, would help train the bilingual mind to ignore distractions in other contexts.
In this task, bilinguals are faced with a particular difficulty compared to monolinguals: due to parallel activation of words from both languages, bilinguals have to suppress non-target language words that may pop up during the stages of lexical search and retrieval.
Many Uighurs complain about policies that encourage Han migration to the region and say the government suppresses Uighurs' language and religion.
Public schools punished students who spoke French in the classroom and even the playground, suppressing the language that many Cajuns see as a binder of their culture.
By 1989, he had abolished Kosovo's autonomy, fired tens of thousands of Albanians from their jobs, suppressed Albanian language education and controlled the territory with a heavy police presence.
They have long complained of discrimination by the state, which suppressed their language and invested little in their areas despite the region's richness in oil and agricultural land.
We suggest that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex serves to attenuate interference that results from having to actively enhance and suppress two languages in alternation.
Therefore, the decreased activation at the left inferior gyrus for deceptive responses might be explained by the hypothesis that participants suppressed the language production of the truthful labeling of faces.
What the class is not, he stressed, is a course on "how to act gay," or conversely, how gay actors can suppress certain body language or speech patterns.
Most slaveholders forcibly suppressed the languages, customs, and cultures of the individuals they enslaved.
