ArticleJournal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR2023
Neural Correlates of Morphosyntactic Processing in Spanish-English Bilingual Children: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study.
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- Advances and trends in the application of functional near-infrared spectroscopy for pediatric assessments: a bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Pooled it
- Neural tracking of surprisal in Spanish-English bilingual children during naturalistic heritage language listening.Brain and language · 2026Article
- Neural specificity for semantic and syntactic processing in Spanish-English bilingual children.Brain and language · 2024Article
- Brain bases of morphological awareness and longitudinal word reading outcomes.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2024Article
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purposeThe aim of this study was to examine the effects of early bilingual exposure on Spanish-English bilingual children's neural organization of English morphosyntactic structures. This study examines how children's age and language experiences are related to morphosyntactic processing at the neural level.
methodEighty-one children (ages 6-11 years) completed an auditory sentence judgment task during functional near-infrared spectroscopy neuroimaging. The measure tapped into children's processing of early-acquired (present progressive -
resultsWe observed effects of syntactic structure and age. Early-acquired morphemic structures elicited activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus, while the later-acquired structures elicited additional activations in the left middle temporal gyrus and superior temporal gyrus (STG). Younger children had a more distributed neural response, whereas older children had a more focal neural response. Finally, there was a trending association between children's English language use and left STG activation for later-acquired structures.
conclusionThe findings inform theories of language and brain development by highlighting the mechanisms by which age and language experiences influence bilingual children's neural architecture for morphosyntactic processing.
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