Vilas, M. et al (2019). Reading Shakespearean tropes in a foreign tongue: Age of L2 acquisition modulates neural responses to functional shifts. Neuropsychologia 124, 79-86

Type of publication: 
article
Language: 
English
Authors from TREC: 
More authors: 
Vilas, M., Santilli, M., Mikulan, E., Adolfi, F., Martorell Caro, M., Manes, F., Herrera, E., Sedeño, L., Ibáñez, A.
Full reference: 
Vilas, M. et al (2019). Reading Shakespearean tropes in a foreign tongue: Age of L2 acquisition modulates neural responses to functional shifts. Neuropsychologia 124, 79-86
Abstract in English: 

Functional shifts (FSs) – morphosyntactically marked words evoking coherent but novel meanings – are ubiquitous in English and, specially, in Shakespearean literature. While their neural signatures have been explored in native speakers, no study has targeted foreign-language users, let alone comparing early and late bilinguals. Here, we administered a validated FS paradigm to subjects from both populations and evaluated time-frequency modulations evoked by FS and control sentences. Early bilinguals exhibited greater sensitivity towards FSs, indexed by reduced fronto-posterior theta-band oscillations across semantic- and structural-integration windows. Such oscillatory modulations may represent a key marker of age-of-acquisition effects during foreign-language wordplay processing.

Year: 
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
English keywords: 
Functional shifts
Second-language processing
Age of acquisition
ERPs
Time frequency

 

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