BRAIN BASES OF NON-WORD PROCESSING IN BILINGUALS

Psycholinguistic literature abounds with bilingual word processing and how it is represented in the brain. There is converging evidence that the right hemisphere is involved to a larger extent in bilinguals. Also in a majority of these studies came out the result that there are differences between real word and non-word processing in terms of processing speed and accuracy. Despite the overwhelming number of studies with a variety of language pairs, research on Turkish-English bilinguals is scarce. In this study we investigated the lateralization of non-word processing Turkish-English bilinguals (N=48) who acquired both languages from birth. We found no across-language difference in the processing of non-words. Also, the results showed that bilinguals have bilateral organization, as reported in the literature.