• Morphological transparency and markedness matter in heritage speaker gender processing: an EEG study 

      Luque, Alicia; Rossi, Eleanora; Kubota, Maki; Nakamura, Megan; Rosales, César Vargas; López-Rojas, Cristina; Rodina, Yulia; Rothman, Jason (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-12)
      The present study investigated the qualitative nature of grammatical gender knowledge and processing in heritage speakers (HSs) of Spanish living in the United States. Forty-four adult Spanish HS bilinguals participated, completing a behavioral grammatical gender assignment task and a grammaticality judgment task (GJT) while their brain activity was recorded using electroencephalography (EEG). The ...
    • Riding the (brain) waves! Using neural oscillations to inform bilingualism research 

      Rossi, Eleonora; Pereria Soares, Sergio Miguel; Prystauka, Yanina; Nakamura, Megan; Rothman, Jason (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-04)
      The study of the brains’ oscillatory activity has been a standard technique to gain insights into human neurocognition for a relatively long time. However, as a complementary analysis to ERPs, only very recently has it been utilized to study bilingualism and its neural underpinnings. Here, we provide a theoretical and methodological starter for scientists in the (psycho) linguistics and neurocognition ...