Language distance in orthographic transparency affects cross-language pattern similarity between native and non-native languages.

ABSTRACT: How native and non-native languages are represented in the brain is one of the most important questions in neurolinguistics. Much research has found that the similarity in neural activity of native and non-native languages are influenced by factors such as age of acquisition, language proficiency, and language exposure in the non-native language. Nevertheless, it is still unclear how the similarity between native and non-native languages in orthographic transparency, a key factor that affects the cognitive and neural mechanisms of phonological access, modulates the cross-language similarity in neural activation and which brain regions show the modulatory effects of language distance in orthographic transparency. To address these questions, the present study used representational similarity

SUBMITTER: Dong J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7856648 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature