Neuro-cognitive correlates of lexical borrowing during sentence comprehension of bi-dialectal speakers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15087367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Junru Wu (0000-0002-2256-0637, East China Normal University, corresponding author), Mengru Han (0000-0002-2231-5922, East China Normal University), Niels O Schiller (0000-0002-0392-7608, City University of Hong Kong) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 171-184 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bilingualism Language and Cognition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1366-7289 • E-ISSN: 1469-1841 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1366728925000264 |
| OpenAlex | W4408946325 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 49 |
This study explores lexical borrowing and loanword nativization from a neuro-cognitive perspective testing bi-dialectal speakers of Standard Chinese and Shanghainese Chinese. We created holistic and morpheme-based cross-dialectal loanwords for auditory sentence processing and compared them with Shanghainese-specific words, code-switches, and pre-existing etymologically related words. Participants rated their acceptance of each word, indicating Shanghainese-specific lexical nativeness. GAM analysis of EEG signals revealed that reduced acceptance correlated with frontal positive shifts in ERPs. Holistic loanwords triggered P300-like shifts associated with form-mismatch, whereas morpheme-based loanwords produced LPC-like shifts, suggesting sentence-level re-analysis, and N400-like early frontal negative shifts, indicating lexical integration challenges. Our results indicate that both lexical acceptance and adaptation strategies are pivotal in the cognitive integration of loanwords, revealing distinct neuropsychological stages and pathways in loanword nativization
Cognition · Comprehension · Linguistics · Sentence · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning
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| Highly cited | No |