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TY - JOUR
T1 - Bilectal Exposure Modulates Neural Signatures to Conflicting Grammatical Properties
T2 - Norway as a Natural Laboratory
AU - Kubota, Maki
AU - Alonso, Jorge González
AU - Anderssen, Merete
AU - Jensen, Isabel Nadine
AU - Luque, Alicia
AU - Soares, Sergio Miguel Pereira
AU - Prystauka, Yanina
AU - Vangsnes, Øystein A.
AU - Sandstedt, Jade Jørgen
AU - Rothman, Jason
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors. Language Learning published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Language Learning Research Club, University of Michigan.
PY - 2024/6/30
Y1 - 2024/6/30
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - bilectalism
KW - ERP
KW - linguistic experience
KW - syntactic processing
U2 - 10.1111/lang.12608
DO - 10.1111/lang.12608
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85177591962
VL - 74
SP - 436
EP - 467
JO - Language Learning
JF - Language Learning
SN - 0023-8333
IS - 2
ER -