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McCarthy KM, Skoruppa K. Language-specific phonological skills and the relationship with reading accuracy in Sylheti-English sequential bilinguals. Child Dev 2023; 94:e85-e102. [PMID: 36515489 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
This study investigated the influence of first language (L1) phonology on second language (L2) early reading skills in Sylheti-English bilinguals (N = 58; 48% girls; British Bangladeshi) and their monolingual-English peers (N = 43; 45% girls; 96% White British, 4% multiethnic British) in a diaspora context. Language-specific phonological awareness and nonword repetition were tested at two time points (6;2-7;8 years-old). At Time 1, the bilinguals had lower productive accuracy for phonological sequences that violated their L1 phonology (d = .56; .84), and these skills accounted for a significant amount of variance in their reading accuracy. At Time 2, the language-specific effects were no longer present. These findings highlight the importance of considering language structure in multilingual early literacy development.
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- Institut des sciences logopédiques, Maison des sciences du language et de la communication, Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Xu X, Jin Y, Pan N, Cao M, Jing J, Ma J, Fan X, Tan S, Song X, Li X. A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study on the White Matter Structures Related to the Phonology in Cantonese-Mandarin Bilinguals. Front Hum Neurosci 2022; 16:851669. [PMID: 35601910 PMCID: PMC9120590 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.851669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2022] [Accepted: 03/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cantonese and Mandarin are logographic languages, and the phonology is the main difference between the two languages. It is unclear whether the long-term experience of Cantonese-Mandarin bilingualism will shape different brain white matter structures related to phonological processing. A total of 30 Cantonese-Mandarin bilinguals and 30 Mandarin monolinguals completed diffusion-weighted imaging scan and phonological processing tasks. The tractography and tract-based spatial statistics were used to investigate the structural differences in the bilateral superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF), inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF), and inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF) between Cantonese-Mandarin bilinguals and Mandarin monolinguals. The post-hoc correlation analysis was conducted to investigate the relationship between the different structures with phonological processing skills. Compared to the Mandarin monolinguals, the Cantonese-Mandarin bilinguals had higher fractional anisotropy (FA) along the left ILFs higher mean diffusivity (MD) along the right IFOF and the temporoparietal segment of SLF (tSLF), higher axial diffusivity (AD) in the right IFOF and left ILF, and lower number of streamlines in the bilateral tSLF. The mean AD of the different voxels in the right IFOF and the mean FA of the different voxels in the left ILF were positively correlated with the inverse efficiency score (IES) of the Cantonese auditory and Mandarin visual rhyming judgment tasks, respectively, within the bilingual group. The correlation between FA and IES was different among the groups. The long-term experience of Cantonese-Mandarin bilinguals shapes the different brain white matter structures in tSLF, IFOF, and ILF. Compared to the monolinguals, the bilinguals' white matter showed higher diffusivity, especially in the axonal direction. These changes were related to bilinguals' phonological processing.
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- Xiaoyu Xu
- Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, Guangzhou, China
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- Wuhan Children’s Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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Carioti D, Stucchi N, Toneatto C, Masia MF, Broccoli M, Carbonari S, Travellini S, Del Monte M, Riccioni R, Marcelli A, Vernice M, Guasti MT, Berlingeri M. Rapid Automatized Naming as a Universal Marker of Developmental Dyslexia in Italian Monolingual and Minority-Language Children. Front Psychol 2022; 13:783775. [PMID: 35465575 PMCID: PMC9021430 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.783775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2021] [Accepted: 02/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) is considered a universal marker of developmental dyslexia (DD) and could also be helpful to identify a reading deficit in minority-language children (MLC), in which it may be hard to disentangle whether the reading difficulties are due to a learning disorder or a lower proficiency in the language of instruction. We tested reading and rapid naming skills in monolingual Good Readers (mGR), monolingual Poor Readers (mPR), and MLC, by using our new version of RAN, the RAN-Shapes, in 127 primary school students (from 3rd to 5th grade). In line with previous research, MLC showed, on average, lower reading performances as compared to mGR. However, the two groups performed similarly to the RAN-Shapes task. On the contrary, the mPR group underperformed both in the reading and the RAN tasks. Our findings suggest that reading difficulties and RAN performance can be dissociated in MLC; consequently, the performance at the RAN-Shapes may contribute to the identification of children at risk of a reading disorder without introducing any linguistic bias, when testing MLC.
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- Desiré Carioti
- Department of Humanities, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy
- Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Humanities, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy
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- Department of Humanities, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy
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- Department of Humanities, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy
- Center of Developmental Neuropsychology, ASUR Marche, Pesaro, Italy
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- Center of Developmental Neuropsychology, ASUR Marche, Pesaro, Italy
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- Center of Developmental Neuropsychology, ASUR Marche, Pesaro, Italy
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- Department of Humanities, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy
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- Department of Humanities, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy
- Center of Developmental Neuropsychology, ASUR Marche, Pesaro, Italy
- NeuroMi, Milan Center for Neuroscience, Milan, Italy
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Georgiou GK, Cardoso-Martins C, Das JP, Falcón A, Hosokawa M, Inoue T, Li Y, Martinez D, Padakannaya P, Parrila R, Pollo TC, Salha SS, Samantaray S, Shu H, Tanji T, Tibi S, Vieira APA. Cross-language contributions of rapid automatized naming to reading accuracy and fluency in young adults: evidence from eight languages representing different writing systems. JOURNAL OF CULTURAL COGNITIVE SCIENCE 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s41809-021-00092-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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