Ka I Ip|Lucy Shih Ju Hsu|Maria M. Arredondo|Twila Tardif|Ioulia Kovelman
Brain bases of morphological processing in Chinese?English bilingual children
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor|University of Hong Kong|University of Michigan–Ann Arbor|University of Michigan–Ann Arbor|University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
abstract bilingual exposure impact childrens neural circuitry learning read answer question investigated brain bases morphological awareness one key spoken language abilities learning read english chinese bilingual chineseenglish monolingual english children n 22 ages 712 completed morphological tasks best characterize languages compound morphology chinese eg basket ball basketball derivational morphology english eg redo contrast monolinguals bilinguals showed greater activation left middle temporal region suggesting bilingual exposure chinese impacts functionality brain regions supporting semantic abilities similar monolinguals bilinguals showed greater activation left inferior frontal region ba 45 english chinese suggesting young bilinguals form languagespecific neural representations findings offer new insights inform bilingual crosslinguistic models language literacy acquisition