Language Non-Selective Syntactic Activation in Early Bilinguals: The Role of Verbal Fluency

Autor/inn/en	Sanoudaki, Eirini; Thierry, Guillaume
Titel	Language Non-Selective Syntactic Activation in Early Bilinguals: The Role of Verbal Fluency
Quelle	In: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 18 (2015) 5, S.548-560 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1367-0050
DOI	10.1080/13670050.2015.1027143
Schlagwörter	Language Fluency; Bilingualism; Verbal Ability; Language Processing; Syntax; Transfer of Training; Sentences; Welsh; Second Language Learning; Task Analysis; Semantics; Control Groups; Diagnostic Tests; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Language Usage; Language Proficiency; English (Second Language); Questionnaires; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom; United Kingdom (Wales) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Bilingualismus; Mündliche Leistung; Sprachverarbeitung; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Walisisch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Aufgabenanalyse; Semantik; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Sprachgebrauch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Fragebogen; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	Numerous studies have shown that bilinguals presented with words in one of their languages spontaneously and automatically activate lexical representations from their other language. However, such effects, found in varied experimental contexts, both in behavioural and psychophysiological investigations, have been essentially limited to the lexical-semantic domain. Using brain potentials in a mental decision task in early highly proficient Welsh-English bilinguals and English monolingual controls, a recent study suggests that language non-selective effects exist in the domain of syntax. In this paper, we test whether syntactic access in bilinguals is affected by relative language abilities, as indexed by verbal fluency measures in the bilingual's two languages. Results reveal that non-selective syntax in English sentence comprehension is limited to bilinguals with higher Welsh verbal fluency. This result suggests for the first time directionality in cross-language syntactic activation in early bilinguals. (As Provided).
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