The Multilingual Reading Brain: An ERP Study of Language Interactions in Three Writing Systems

    Project: Research project

    Project Details

    Description

    This study will tease apart visual and phonological overlaps in word forms in cognates with both alphabetic and non-alphabetic languages. Chinese/Japanese Kanji same-script cognates and English/Japanese Katakana crossscript cognates will be presented to Chinese-English-Japanese trilinguals and two control groups of Chinese-English and Japanese-English bilinguals in Hong Kong. Participants will engage in lexical decision and delayed word naming with simultaneous eye-tracking and ERP recordings. Results will clarify and contrast the roles of orthography and phonology in three languages and four scripts. Task-related differences will be reveal whether multilingual word processing is context-dependent and moderated by top-down control.

    Funding Source: RGC - Early Career Scheme (ECS)
    StatusFinished
    Effective start/end date01/01/1930/06/21

    Keywords

    • word access
    • second language acquisition
    • reading

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