A fundamental question for multilingual individuals is the extent to which the languages interact Our lab aims to delineate at the neural level in multilingual individuals the components of the language system that are specific to each language and the ones that may be shared across languages. Theoretically, it could be that once a neural mechanism is in place for a particular linguistic process (e.g., plural inflection), the same neural population will subserve this operation regardless of the input language, supporting a unified language architecture that is impervious to the specifics of an individual’s language experience. Alternatively, it is possible that each language may develop its own set of distinct neural mechanisms based on the formal structure of each language and several sociolinguistic factors such as the age at which each language was acquired, or how proficient a person is in that language. In our lab, we try to answer this questions at the lexical, morphological and syntactic level, to derive principles of the language system that can be general across levels of representation.
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