Published
June 26, 2007
Keywords
- Tachistoscopic study,
- Monolingual,
- Bilingual,
- Cerebral Asymmetry
How to Cite
Shyamala Chengappa, & Jayanti Ray. (2007). A Tachistoscopic Study of Monolingual and Bilingual Children. Journal of All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, 26(1), 60-64. Retrieved from http://203.129.241.91/jaiish/index.php/aiish/article/view/183
Abstract
A tachistoscopic study of 10 monolingual and 10 bilingual children, was taken up to investigatethe effect of hemispheric processing in Kannada and English language using concrete nouns from both the languages. A comparison of monolingual and bilingual performance on Kannada revealed a better performance by monolingual over bilinguals. The bilinguals however, did not show a significant difference in performance on three language lists viz. Kannada-Kannada, Kannada-English and English-English. On both intergroup and intergroup performance, of monolinguals and bilinguals, a consistent left visual field superiority was found. Possible contributing factors are discussed in relation to the performance of the two groups.
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Hines, D. (1977): Difference in tachistoscopic recognition between abstract and concrete words as a function of visual half field and frequency. Cortex, 13, 66-73.
Jones, B. (1978): Lateral asymmetrics in visual perception with without eye movement. Cortex, 14, 164-168.
Marcel, T., Katz, L. & Smith, M. (1974). Laterality and reading proficiency. Neuropsychologica, 12, 131-139.
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Paradis, M. (1990): Language lateralization in bilinguals: Enough already. Brain & Language, 4, 576- 613.
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Silverberg, R., Bentin, W., Gaziel, T., Obler, L.K. & Albert, M.L. (1979): Shift of visual field preference for English words in native Hebrew speakers. Brain & Language, 8, 184-190.
Soares, C. (1984): Left hemisphere language lateralization in bilingual use of concurrent activities paradigm. Brain & Language, 23, 86-96.
Vaid, J. (1987): Field asymmetries for rhyme and syntactic category judgements in monolinguals and fluent early and late bilinguals. Brain & Language, 30, 263-277.
Walters, J. & Zatorre, R.J. (1978): Laterality differences for word identification in bilinguals. Brain and Language, 6, 158-162.
Zoccolotti, P. & Oltman, P.K. (1978). Field dependence and lataeralization of verbal and configuration processing. Cortex, 14, 155-163.