title: Differential cerebral speech lateralization in Crow Indian and Anglo children.
abstract: Sixty pairs of dichotically presented CV syllables were administered to matched samples of bilingual Native American Crow and monolingual Anglo subjects. While sex and grade were not significant factors, a significant variance was found between the performance of the bilingual Native American Crow and the monolingual Anglo subjects. As predicted (1) the bilingual children demonstrated a more symmetrical cerebral representation for language processing than the monolingual children; and (2) the bilingual primary Crow speakers had a greater right hemisphere involvement in receptive language processing than the monolingual English speakers. Possible factors influencing these results are discussed.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000523:psychology*; D007802:Language; D009009:Montana; D010700:Phonetics; D012660:Semantics; D013067:Speech Perception