Language Processing and Cross-Language Influence of Late Chinese-English Bilinguals

Abstract

This article uses a literature review from different perspectives to investigate and explore different research on late Mandarin-English bilinguals and their cross-language processing. Through reviewing different articles, the author hopes to probe into cutting-edge research and present the results for the mutual influence between late Chinese-English bilinguals’ first language and second language. Behavioral, neural and linguistic studies are summarized and compared in this article. Various research methods and analysis approaches are also reviewed and evaluated in order to draw a clear and detailed picture of the cross-language processing of late Chinese-English Bilinguals.

Keywords: Late Chinese-English Bilinguals, Bilingualism, Psycholinguistics, Language Development