Table 5.
Evidence (BF10) for and against the effect of language similarity on each ability.
| Sliding contrast | Simple contrast | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ability | Linear trend | Mono vs. Bidial | Bidial vs. Sim | Sim vs. Dissim | Mono vs. Sim | Mono vs. Dissim | ||||||
| BF10 | % error | BF10 | % error | BF10 | % error | BF10 | % error | BF10 | % error | BF10 | % error | |
| Linguistic ability | ||||||||||||
| Linguistic accuracy | 30.20 | ±1.46 | 0.27 | ±1.67 | 0.53 | ±2.30 | 1.64 | ± 0.72 | 0.29 | ±0.91 | 7.11 | ±0.84 |
| Linguistic speed | 0.45 | ±2.17 | 0.29 | ±2.20 | 0.28 | ±1.11 | 0.27 | ±1.82 | 0.39 | ±1.04 | 0.36 | ±1.23 |
| Executive functions | ||||||||||||
| Inhibition | 0.35 | ±1.41 | 0.27 | ±1.73 | 0.49 | ±0.96 | 0.34 | ±0.96 | 0.35 | ±1.44 | 0.27 | ±2.63 |
| Monitoring | 0.75 | ±0.91 | 1.07 | ±2.78 | 0.26 | ±1.88 | 0.33 | ±0.74 | 1.83 | ±1.10 | 0.43 | ±1.19 |
| Mixing | 0.68 | ±0.81 | 0.71 | ±3.97 | 0.45 | ±0.86 | 0.37 | ±1.37 | 1.11 | ±0.69 | 0.66 | ±0.91 |
| Shifting | 0.37 | ±0.98 | 0.32 | ±0.94 | 0.72 | ±1.56 | 1.02 | ±1.20 | 0.34 | ±1.24 | 0.32 | ±0.99 |
| Working memory | 0.74 | ±0.78 | 3.85 | ±1.83 | 0.39 | ±1.37 | 0.35 | ±1.05 | 1.24 | ±0.89 | 0.74 | ±0.75 |
Mono, Monolinguals; Bidial, Bidialectals; Sim, Similar Bilinguals; Dissim, Dissimilar Bilinguals. All models included the average parents’ education level as a proxy for socio-economic status as an additional predictor. Values printed in bold indicate at least substantial evidence for (BF10 ≥ 3) or against (BF10 ≤ 0.33) the alternative hypothesis.