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A right-ear advantage for dichotic listening in bilingual children
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Gordon, Donna Piazza Zatorre, Robert J. |
| Copyright Year | 1981 |
| Abstract | Abstract A dichotic listening task was administered to two groups of right-handed Hispanic children enrolled in bilingual education classes. The younger group's mean age was 9:6, the older group's was 13:6. Two dichotic tapes were used, one in English, one in Spanish, consisting of 60 pairs of words per tape. The words were comparable across languages in terms of frequency, grammatical function, and phonetic composition. The results showed clear and equal right-ear advantages for both groups of subjects and for both languages. As expected, older children scored higher than younger ones, and performance on Spanish was better than on English. Neither of these effects interacted with the ear advantage, however. Ear difference scores did not correlate with proficiency in the second language (as measured by performance on the English tape), but there was a significant correlation ( r = .58) between the degree of asymmetry in the two languages. These findings indicate that the left hemisphere is primarily (and equally) involved in processing both languages of bilinguals, and that this pattern appears to remain stable in development. |
| Starting Page | 389 |
| Ending Page | 396 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1016/0093-934X(81)90103-6 |
| PubMed reference number | 7260580 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 13 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/pii/0093934X81901036 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0093934X81901036?dgcid=api_sd_search-api-endpoint |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1016/0093-934X%2881%2990103-6 |
| Journal | Brain and Language |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
