The Bilingual Brain - Week 3

Which of the following domains does show an effect on AoA?

• Speech

• Grammar

• Golf Putting

• All of them

Answer explanation

In the three domains there is a clear effect of AoA

Bilingual infants have a bias toward speech sounds from _________ languages at an early age:

• Many

• Two

• One

• None of them

AoA effects can be studied in Quinchua-Spanish bilinguals because both languages:

• Have the same consonant sounds

• Have different vowel sounds

• Have different consonant sounds

• Have the same vowel sounds

Answer explanation

Quichua has 3 vowel sounds whereas Spanish has 5.

At what age do bilingual children begin to distinguish between two grammars:

• Two

• Eight

• Four

• One

Answer explanation

Studies have found that bilingual children can distinguish between the grammars of two languages.

Early exposure to a language does not necessarily help with:

• How children learn grammatical gender

• How they distinguish nouns and verbs

• objects associated with men or women

• None of them

Answer explanation

Spanish-speaking over hearers will not necessarily gain sensitivity to grammatical gender.

Which of the following groups are the most likely to speak a second language better than the first:

• Early bilinguals immersed in a second language

• Late bilinguals immersed in a second language

• Late bilinguals immersed in a first language

• 
  

  Early bilinguals immersed in a first language

Answer explanation

This group of bilinguals is most likely to speak a second language better since they are immersed in it at a young age.

The fact that brain activity was observed below Broca's area in late learners of Spanish suggest that:

• Late learners process gender in the same way as early learners

• Late learners use meaning based strategies to process grammatical gender

• Late learners rely on motor planning when processing grammatical gender

• None of them

Answer explanation

The area below Broca’s area is generally associated with meaning based processing. Activity in this area in late learners suggests that they may be using a form of conceptual gender to process grammatical gender.

Find approximately Broca's area and Wernicke's area: