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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroscience
  • Linguistics

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  • Human languages have unique syntactic rules.
  • Bilingualism involves managing multiple linguistic systems.
  • Syntactic rule transfer between languages is a key area of study.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the unconscious application of language-specific morphosyntactic rules in bilinguals.
  • To determine if abstract syntactic rules transfer between Welsh and English.
  • To examine the neural processing of syntactically anomalous English words in Welsh-English bilinguals.

Main Methods:

  • Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were used to measure neural activity.
  • Participants were balanced Welsh-English bilinguals.
  • English words were presented with and without Welsh soft mutation applied.

Main Results:

  • Bilinguals showed reduced processing effort for English words "mutated" according to Welsh rules.
  • This effect occurred even when the mutation did not involve shared initial consonants.
  • Neural processing indicated unconscious application of the Welsh morphosyntactic rule.

Conclusions:

  • Abstract syntactic rules can transfer between languages, even if exclusive to one.
  • This demonstrates anomalous syntactic rule transfer in bilingual language processing.
  • The findings provide novel insights into the cognitive mechanisms of bilingualism.