01802caa a2200217 4500 210621s9999 xx 000 0 und d 2582-4961 Deepthi, M Inhibitory control process and lexical robustness in multi-linguals All India Institute of Speech and Hearing 2014 J.S.S. Institute of Speech and Hearing, J.S.S. Research Foundation deepthi.snh@gmail.com 99-105 Volume 33 When a picture is viewed by a monolingual speaker, the conceptual representation is rst set into motion followed by the associated lexical and phonological representations prior verbalization. This uncomplicated mechanism becomes more complicated for multilinguals. This complica- tion is partly resolved by inhibitory control mechanisms. The focus of the earlier studies on inhibitory control function was on bilinguals. Therefore, present study aimed at investigating the language switching performance and lexical robustness using verbal uency task in multilinguals. Twenty multilingual speakers of Kannada (L1), English (L2) and Hindi (L3) in the age range of 18 to 23 years participated in the study. Reaction time of language switching across the languages and verbal uency in all the three languages were calculated. The ndings suggested an interaction between inhibitory control abilities and language switching capabilities when particularly switching from a more procient language to less procient language Lexical representation, Language Switching task, Lexical robustness Nataraja, N.P Journal of All India Institute of Speech & Hearing http://192.168.102.7/jaiish/index.php/aiish/article/view/809/499 FJAS FJAS 17682 17682