LI Lingling, ZENG Tianjiao, JIA Guanjie
Foreign Language World. 2021, 0(6): 90-94.
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Based on the CSSCI and SSCI journal papers (2000—2020) in the CNKI and Web of Science databases, this paper reviews empirical studies in Chinese and English literature on trilingual language processing since the new century. The findings of the paper reveal that trilingual participants recruited in Chinese and English empirical studies differ in language acquisition orders, language types, language competence assessment, age brackets and health conditions. Regarding experiment methods, behavioral methods are most frequently used in both Chinese and English empirical studies, and diverse cognitive neuroscience methods are employed in English empirical studies. In terms of research topics, both Chinese and English empirical studies prefer lexical and semantic processing whereas English empirical studies also probe into trilingual cognitive advantage and aphasic language processing. In the end, the paper puts forward some suggestions on how to innovatively promote the research on trilingual language processing.