Language prediction in monolingual and bilingual speakers: an EEG study. 2024

Mohammad Momenian, and Mahsa Vaghefi, and Hamidreza Sadeghi, and Saeedeh Momtazi, and Lars Meyer
Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, CF705, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Mohammad.momenian@polyu.edu.hk.

Prediction of upcoming words is thought to be crucial for language comprehension. Here, we are asking whether bilingualism entails changes to the electrophysiological substrates of prediction. Prior findings leave it open whether monolingual and bilingual speakers predict upcoming words to the same extent and in the same manner. We address this issue with a naturalistic approach, employing an information-theoretic metric, surprisal, to predict and contrast the N400 brain potential in monolingual and bilingual speakers. We recruited 18 Iranian Azeri-Persian bilingual speakers and 22 Persian monolingual speakers. Subjects listened to a story in Persian while their electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded. Bayesian item-level analysis was used. While in monolingual speakers N400 was sensitive to information-theoretic properties of both the current and previous words, in bilingual speakers N400 reflected the properties of the previous word only. Our findings show evidence for a processing delay in bilingual speakers which is consistent with prior research.

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