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Oral reading in bilingual aphasia: evidence from Mongolian and Chinese

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posted on 2023-06-07, 14:18 authored by Brendan Stuart Weekes, I Fan Su, Wengang Yin, Xihong Zhang
Cognitive neuropsychological studies of bilingual patients with aphasia have contributed to our understanding of how the brain processes different languages. The question we asked is whether differences in script have any impact on language processing in bilingual aphasic patients who speak languages with different writing systems: Chinese and Mongolian. We observed a pattern of greater impairment to written word comprehension and oral reading in L2 (Chinese) than in L1 (Mongolian) for two patients. We argue that differences in script have only a minimal effect on written word processing in bilingual aphasia when the age of acquisition, word frequency and imageability of lexical items is controlled. Our conclusion is that reading of familiar words in Mongolian and Chinese might not require independent cognitive systems or brain regions.

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  • Published

Journal

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition

ISSN

1366-7289

Issue

2

Volume

10

Page range

201-210

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  • Psychology Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2008-03-11

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