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Do Bilinguals and Monolinguals Differ in their Predictive Language Processing? An ERP Investigation
| Τίτλος: | Do Bilinguals and Monolinguals Differ in their Predictive Language Processing? An ERP Investigation |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Swaab, Tamara Y, Jahanfard, Elaina Shiva |
| Στοιχεία εκδότη: | eScholarship, University of California 2025-09-21 |
| Τύπος εγγράφου: | Mixed materials |
| Περίληψη: | A prominent idea in the study of language processing is known as Predictive Processing. This theory posits that we actively generate predictions for upcoming language input and that these predictions facilitate language processing. While this theory has been well studied with native speakers, much less is known about prediction in bilinguals despite the global ubiquity of bilingualism. Moreover, the literature on L2 Predictive Processing is mixed, with some studies suggesting that bilingual language users do not predict in their L2 and others suggesting that prediction in L2 is delayed. This dissertation aims to investigate whether native and non-native speakers of English differ in 1) the magnitude, 2) timing, and 3) content of predictively pre-activated information.Chapter 1 provides an overview of the literature on prediction during lexical-semantic processing and sets the stage for the empirical work by outlining open questions about prediction in a second language.Chapter 2 uses EEG/ERPs to examine the effects of accurate predictions and semantic relatedness on processing in the L2 of Spanish-English bilinguals and in Native English speakers. Data were collected as participants engaged in a two-word priming paradigm with a prediction task. Both groups showed clear N400 facilitation for accurately predicted words and semantically related words, and PNP effects to unpredicted related trials. In both groups, the effects of prediction accuracy preceded those of semantic relatedness, demonstrating that effects of prediction are separable from semantic matching effects. However, bilinguals showed a slight delay in the onset of both effects, suggesting that while they engage similar predictive mechanisms as monolinguals, they may maintain competing alternatives for longer, providing greater flexibility to adapt when predictions are not met. Overall, these findings indicate that predictive processing operates similarly across groups but with subtle timing differences t |
| Όροι ευρετηρίου: | Psychology, Cognitive psychology, Neurosciences, Bilingual education, Bilingualism, ERPs, Language Processing, N400, PNP, Predictive Processing, publication |
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| Διαθεσιμότητα: | Open access content. Open access content public |
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| Other Numbers: | CDLER oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0530d0wt qt0530d0wt 1552592029 |
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