TY - JOUR
T1 - The time course of brain activity in reading identical cognates
T2 - An ERP study of Chinese - Japanese bilinguals
AU - Xiong, Kexin
AU - Verdonschot, Rinus G.
AU - Tamaoka, Katsuo
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellows granted to KX (18F18302). RV is supported by a Grant in Aid for Scientific Research-C (17K02748). The authors would like to thank Shingo Tokimoto, Sachiko Kiyama and Shaoyun Yu, for their invaluable advice on the data analyses.
Funding Information:
This study was funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellows granted to KX ( 18F18302 ). RV is supported by a Grant in Aid for Scientific Research-C ( 17K02748 ). The authors would like to thank Shingo Tokimoto, Sachiko Kiyama and Shaoyun Yu, for their invaluable advice on the data analyses.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
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PY - 2020/8
Y1 - 2020/8
N2 - Previous studies suggest that bilinguals’ lexical access is language non-selective, especially for orthographically identical translation equivalents across languages (i.e., identical cognates). The present study investigated how such words (e.g., 学校 meaning “school” in both Chinese and Japanese) are processed in the (late) Chinese - Japanese bilingual brain. Using an L2-Japanese lexical decision task, both behavioral and electrophysiological data were collected. Reaction times (RTs), as well as the N400 component, showed that cognates are more easily recognized than non-cognates. Additionally, an early component (i.e., the N250), potentially reflecting activation at the word-form level, was also found. Cognates elicited a more positive N250 than non-cognates in the frontal region, indicating that the cognate facilitation effect occurred at an early stage of word formation for languages with logographic scripts.
AB - Previous studies suggest that bilinguals’ lexical access is language non-selective, especially for orthographically identical translation equivalents across languages (i.e., identical cognates). The present study investigated how such words (e.g., 学校 meaning “school” in both Chinese and Japanese) are processed in the (late) Chinese - Japanese bilingual brain. Using an L2-Japanese lexical decision task, both behavioral and electrophysiological data were collected. Reaction times (RTs), as well as the N400 component, showed that cognates are more easily recognized than non-cognates. Additionally, an early component (i.e., the N250), potentially reflecting activation at the word-form level, was also found. Cognates elicited a more positive N250 than non-cognates in the frontal region, indicating that the cognate facilitation effect occurred at an early stage of word formation for languages with logographic scripts.
KW - Bilingual cognate recognition
KW - Chinese - Japanese bilingual
KW - Event-related potential (ERP)
KW - Language non-selective activation
KW - N250
KW - N400
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100911
DO - 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100911
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85083085953
VL - 55
JO - Journal of Neurolinguistics
JF - Journal of Neurolinguistics
SN - 0911-6044
M1 - 100911
ER -