Brain bases of English morphological processing: A comparison between Chinese-English, Spanish-English bilingual, and English monolingual children.

ABSTRACT: How do early bilingual experiences influence children's neural architecture for word processing? Dual language acquisition can yield common influences that may be shared across different bilingual groups, as well as language-specific influences stemming from a given language pairing. To investigate these effects, we examined bilingual English speakers of Chinese or Spanish, and English monolinguals, all raised in the US (N = 152, ages 5-10). Children completed an English morphological word processing task during fNIRS neuroimaging. The findings revealed both language-specific and shared bilingual effects. The language-specific effects were that Chinese and Spanish bilinguals showed principled differences in their neural organization for English lexical morphology. The common bilingual effe

SUBMITTER: Sun X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9615011 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature