The term cerebral dominance designates the hemisphere that is dominant for language
The right hemisphere is dominant in early processing of words in Mandarin while the left is dominant in late processing. Studies of American Sign Language have shown more distributed hemispheric activity as opposed to the dominance of the left brain in English speakers.emispheric dominance (pseudoscience promoters sometimes call it  brainedness , cf. handedness) refers to the fact that: 1  The two hemispheres of the brain are specialized to perform certain tasks (lateralization).