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

• Published in: Developmental science Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. e13251 - n/a
• Main Authors: Sun, Xin, Marks, Rebecca A., Zhang, Kehui, Yu, Chi‐Lin, Eggleston, Rachel L., Nickerson, Nia, Chou, Tai‐Li, Hu, Xiao‐Su, Tardif, Twila, Satterfield, Teresa, Kovelman, Ioulia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Wiley 01.01.2023; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Bilingualism; Brain - physiology; brain development; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Child; Child, Preschool; Children; Chinese; Chinese‐English bilingual; Comparative Analysis; Diagnostic Tests; East Asian People; English; English (Second Language); fNIRS; Humans; Information processing; Language; Language Acquisition; Language Development; Language Processing; Language Proficiency; Monolingualism; morphological processing; Morphology; Morphology (Languages); Multilingualism; Native Language; Neuroimaging; Neurolinguistics; Neurological Organization; Second Language Learning; Spanish; Spanish‐English bilingual; Superior temporal gyrus; Task Analysis; Temporal gyrus; Word processing; brain development; morphological processing; Spanish-English bilingual; fNIRS; Chinese-English bilingual; bilingualism

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 investi...