What's in a word? Cross‐linguistic influences on Spanish–English and Chinese–English bilingual children's word reading development

X Sun, K Zhang, RA Marks, N Nickerson… - Child …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the cross‐linguistic transfer of literacy skills in Spanish–English,
Chinese–English bilingual, and English monolingual children (N= 283, 5–10 years) …

[HTML][HTML] A meta-analysis of fMRI studies of language comprehension in children

A Enge, AD Friederici, MA Skeide - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
The neural representation of language comprehension has been examined in several meta-
analyses of fMRI studies with human adults. To complement this work from a developmental …

How does language distance between L1 and L2 affect the L2 brain network? An fMRI study of Korean–Chinese–English trilinguals

SY Kim, T Qi, X Feng, G Ding, L Liu, F Cao - NeuroImage, 2016 - Elsevier
The present study tested the hypothesis that language distance between first language (L1)
and second language (L2) influences the assimilation and accommodation pattern in …

How the brain encodes morphological constraints during Chinese word reading: An EEG-fNIRS study

F Gao, R Wang, P Armada-da-Silva, MY Wang, H Lu… - cortex, 2022 - Elsevier
Although the role of morphology in alphabetic language processing has been extensively
studied, it is still unclear how morphology is enabled and constrained in morpho-syllabic …

The neurocognitive basis of morphological processing in typical and impaired readers

RA Marks, RL Eggleston, X Sun, CL Yu, K Zhang… - Annals of …, 2022 - Springer
Morphological awareness, or sensitivity to units of meaning, is an essential component of
reading comprehension development. Current neurobiological models of reading and …

Brain bases of morphological awareness and longitudinal word reading outcomes

RA Marks, R Eggleston, I Kovelman - Journal of Experimental Child …, 2024 - Elsevier
Children's spoken language skills are essential to the development of the “reading brain,” or
the neurocognitive systems that underlie successful literacy. Morphological awareness, or …

[HTML][HTML] Structural properties of the ventral reading pathways are associated with morphological processing in adult English readers

M Yablonski, K Rastle, JSH Taylor, M Ben-Shachar - cortex, 2019 - Elsevier
Morphological processing, the ability to extract information about word structure, is an
essential component of reading. Functional MRI studies have identified several cortical …

Brain bases of morphological processing in Chinese‐English bilingual children

KI Ip, LSJ Hsu, MM Arredondo, T Tardif… - Developmental …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Can bilingual exposure impact children's neural circuitry for learning to read? To answer this
question, we investigated the brain bases of morphological awareness, one of the key …

Phonological and morphological literacy skills in English and Chinese: A cross‐linguistic neuroimaging comparison of Chinese–English bilingual and monolingual …

K Zhang, X Sun, CL Yu, RL Eggleston… - Human Brain …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Over the course of literacy development, children learn to recognize word sounds and
meanings in print. Yet, they do so differently across alphabetic and character‐based …

Morphological processing in Chinese engages left temporal regions

KI Ip, RA Marks, LSJ Hsu, N Desai, JL Kuan, T Tardif - Brain and language, 2019 - Elsevier
Morphological awareness, the ability to manipulate the smallest units of meaning, is critical
for Chinese literacy. This is because Chinese characters typically reflect the morphemic, or …