Anupama Ivaturi, Loc Giang Do, Lynne Giles, Gemma Devenish, Jane A Scott, Diep H Ha, Rebecca Golley, Lucy K Bell, Paula J Moynihan
Sources and determinants of free sugars intake by 5-year-old Australian children in the SMILE cohort
Maternal & child nutrition
growing trend bilingual education chinese english contributed rise number early bilingual children exposed l2 prior formal language instruction l1 l2l1 transfer effect l1dominant environment well established however threshold l2 proficiency transfer manifests remains unclear study investigated behavioral neural processes involved manipulating phonemes auditory phonological task uncover transfer effect young bilingual children sixtytwo first graders elementary schools taiwan recruited study 29 chinese monolinguals 33 chineseenglish bilinguals brain activity measured using fnirs functional nearinfrared spectroscopy bilingual children showed right lateralization process chinese left lateralization process english supports accommodation effect within framework assimilationaccommodation hypothesis also compared monolinguals bilingual children showed bilateral frontal activation chinese potentially reflecting mixed influence l2l1 transfer effects increased cognitive load bilingual exposure results elucidate developmental adjustments neural substrates associated early bilingual exposure phonological processing offering valuable insights bilingual learning process