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Bilingualism Affords No General Cognitive Advantages: A Population Study of Executive Function in 11,000 People

open access: yesPsychology Science, 2020
Whether acquiring a second language affords any general advantages to executive function has been a matter of fierce scientific debate for decades. If being bilingual does have benefits over and above the broader social, employment, and lifestyle gains ...
E. S. Nichols   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bi-Directional Evidence Linking Sentence Production and Comprehension: A Cross-Modality Structural Priming Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Natural language involves both speaking and listening. Recent models claim that production and comprehension share aspects of processing and are linked within individuals (Pickering and Garrod, 2004, 2013; MacDonald, 2013; Dell and Chang, 2014). Evidence
Kaitlyn A. Litcofsky   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bilingualism in the family and child well-being: A scoping review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Bilingualism, 2020
Aims and objectives: The aim of this scoping review is to investigate the association between bilingualism in the family and child subjective well-being, by reviewing the literature to identify key themes to date and remaining questions for future ...
Lisa-Maria Müller   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Towards a description of trilingual competence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Most studies involving trilingualism have been carried out within the theoretical framework of bilingualism research. No attempt has been made to delimit trilingualism as a concept in its own right, and often it has been assumed to be an extension of ...
Hoffmann, C
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The Disappearance of Languages and Natural Bilingualism

open access: yesPolylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2023
The disappearance of small languages occurs through an obligatory phase of collective natural bilingualism (i.e., bilingualism resulting from language contacts) and ends with the transition of the language community to a more widespread and promising ...
Nina Sh. Alexandrova
doaj   +1 more source

Characterizing the social diversity of bilingualism using language entropy

open access: yesBilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2019
Bilingual and multilingual individuals exhibit variation in everyday language experience. Studies on bilingualism account for individual differences with measures such as L2 age of acquisition, exposure, or language proficiency, but recent theoretical ...
J. Gullifer, D. Titone
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bilingualism in Gadis Pantai Novel by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

open access: yesJournal of English Education and Teaching, 2020
The background of this study begins from people who rarely use monoligual language (one language). But in daily life, there are still many people who use two languages (bilingualism).
Achmad Suherman, Agus Sulaeman
doaj   +1 more source

Event-related brain potential investigation of preparation for speech production in late bilinguals

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2011
It has been debated how bilinguals select the intended language and prevent interference from the unintended language when speaking. Here, we studied the nature of the mental representations accessed by late fluent bilinguals during a rhyming judgment ...
Yan Jing eWu   +2 more
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Task Sensitivity in L2 English Speakers’ Syntactic Processing: Evidence for Good-Enough Processing in Self-Paced Reading

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Native (L1) and second-language (L2) sentence processing can sometimes be shallow. A Good-Enough approach suggests that speakers may engage in shallow processing if the task permits. This study tests English native speakers and native Chinese L2 learners
Maryann Tan, Anouschka Foltz
doaj   +1 more source

Bilingualism and multilingualism as an interdisciplinary phenomenon: socio-cultural context, research problems and perspectives [PDF]

open access: yesНациональный психологический журнал, 2019
Background. According to various sources, about half of the world’s population speaks two or more languages on different levels. The steady growth of bilingual and multilingual populations through migration and learning of foreign languages, on the one ...
Lyudmila A. Shaigerova   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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