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Bilectal Exposure Modulates Neural Signatures to Conflicting Grammatical Properties: Norway as a Natural Laboratory

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  • Maki Kubota
  • Jorge González Alonso
  • Merete Anderssen
  • Isabel Nadine Jensen
  • Alicia Luque
  • Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares
  • Yanina Prystauka
  • Øystein A. Vangsnes
  • Jade Jørgen Sandstedt
  • Jason Rothman
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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>30/06/2024
<mark>Journal</mark>Language Learning
Issue number2
Volume74
Number of pages32
Pages (from-to)436-467
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date22/11/23
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The current study investigated gender (control) and number (target) agreement processing in Northern and non-Northern Norwegians living in Northern Norway. Participants varied in exposure to Northern Norwegian (NN) dialect(s), where number marking differs from most other Norwegian dialects. In a comprehension task involving reading NN dialect writing, P600 effects for number agreement were significantly affected by NN exposure. The more exposure the NN nonnatives had, the larger the P600 was, driven by the presence of number agreement (ungrammatical in NN). In contrast, less exposure correlated to the inverse: P600 driven by the absence of number agreement (ungrammatical in most other dialects). The NN natives showed P600 driven by the presence of number agreement regardless of exposure. These findings suggests that bilectalism entails the representation of distinct mental grammars for each dialect. However, like all instances of bilingualism, bilectalism exists on a continuum whereby linguistic processing is modulated by linguistic experience.

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