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Bilingualism has been shown through various studies to have a significant effect on certain aspects of cognitive development, especially in comparison to that of monolingual individuals. [3] Bialystok has investigated this idea further, attempting to figure out what parts of cognitive development, specifically, are affected by bilingualism.
To test the protection of bilingualism against Alzheimer's disease (AD), Bialystok et al. (2007) [26] examined hospital records of monolingual and bilingual patients who were diagnosed with various types of dementia. After controlling for various cognitive factors, the researchers found bilinguals experienced later onset of symptoms and were ...
Past research has attempted to find correlations between the attainment of metalinguistic ability with other language abilities like literacy and bilingualism. However, the paradigm shifted with the idea that metalinguistic ability had to instead be measured through essential underlying skills (i.e. analysed knowledge and cognitive control).
Neuroscience of multilingualism is the study of multilingualism within the field of neurology.These studies include the representation of different language systems in the brain, the effects of multilingualism on the brain's structural plasticity, aphasia in multilingual individuals, and bimodal bilinguals (people who can speak at least one sign language and at least one oral language).
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of linguistics focusing on the study of multilingualism, including bilingual language competence, perception and production, bilingual language acquisition in children and adults, neurolinguistics of bilingualism (in normal and brain-damaged populations), and non-linguistic cognitive processes in bilinguals.
This decade saw a flurry of papers describing and analyzing communication strategies, and saw Ellen Bialystok link communication strategies to her general theory of second-language acquisition. [6] There was more activity in the 1990s with a collection of papers by Kasper and Kellerman [ 7 ] and a review article by Dörnyei and Scott, [ 8 ] but ...
Bialystok's most recent work also shows that lifelong bilingualism can delay symptoms of dementia. [10] It is believed that bilingualism contributes to cognitive reserve by preventing effects of cognitive delay and prolonging the onset of sicknesses such as dementia. Cognitive reserve refers to the idea that engaging in stimulating physical or ...
Judith F. Kroll is a Distinguished Professor of Language Science at University of California, Irvine.She specializes in psycholinguistics, focusing on second language acquisition and bilingual language processing. [1]