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Accepting a “New” Standard Variety: Comparing Explicit Attitudes in Luxembourg and Belgium

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
Language maintenance efforts aim to bolster attitudes towards endangered languages by providing them with a standard variety as a means to raise their status and prestige. However, the introduced variety can vary in its degrees of standardisation.
Judit Vari, Marco Tamburelli
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Regulation and Control: What Bimodal Bilingualism Reveals about Learning and Juggling Two Languages

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
In individuals who know more than one language, the languages are always active to some degree. This has consequences for language processing, but bilinguals rarely make mistakes in language selection.
Anne Therese Frederiksen   +1 more
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The Bilingual Home Language Boost Through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Usage-based accounts of language acquisition suggest that bilingual language proficiency is dynamic and susceptible to changes in language use. The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented modifications in the language learning environment of developing ...
Li Sheng   +5 more
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Individual and Sociolinguistic Differences in Language Background Predict Stroop Performance

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2022
To examine how differences in language experience and sociolinguistic context impact cognitive control, 146 Spanish-English bilingual participants were tested on a non-linguistic Stroop arrows task.
Max R. Freeman   +3 more
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Comprehension of Mandarin Aspect Markers by Preschool Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) reportedly struggle with the comprehension of aspect. However, since aspect and tense are closely entangled in the languages spoken by the children with DLD in previous studies, it is unclear whether ...
Lijun Chen   +2 more
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Lexical and morphological development: A case study of Malay English bilingual first language acquisition

open access: yesPsychology of Language and Communication, 2021
Many first language acquisition (FLA) studies have found a strong correlation between lexical and grammatical development in early language acquisition.
Salleh Rabiah Tul Adawiyah Mohamed   +2 more
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Lifelong Bilingualism Functions as an Alternative Intervention for Cognitive Reserve Against Alzheimer's Disease

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Bilingualism has been reported to significantly delay the onset of dementia and plays an important role in the management of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a condition inducing impairment in the brain network and cognitive decline.
Haiqing Liu, Longhuo Wu
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INVESTIGATING THE ADVANTAGES OF BILINGUALISM: MULTIDIMENSIONAL RESEARCH FINDINGS

open access: yesEternal (English, Teaching, Learning & Research Journal), 2021
Bilingualism is a widely discussed phenomenon due to its rising trend in this globalization era. Many negative conclusions about bilingualism have been met with positive outcomes from recent studies. This study was library research aimed at exploring the
Gusti Putu Rustika Dewi   +4 more
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Exploring Cross-Linguistic Effects and Phonetic Interactions in the Context of Bilingualism: Introducing the Special Issue

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
Bilinguals who have acquired both of their languages simultaneously since birth or have learned their first language (L1) and their second language (L2) sequentially, as children or as adults, are able to produce and perceive two different sound systems [
Mark Amengual
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Raising bilingual autistic children in the UK: at the intersection between neurological and language diversity

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
IntroductionWhile research shows no negative effects of bilingualism on autistic children’s development, due to misconceptions around both autism and bilingualism, bilingual parents and educational/clinical practitioners who advise them often express ...
Bérengère Galadriel Digard   +3 more
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