The bilingual advantage revealed in monolinguals that are early exposed to L 2

There’s an ongoing debate on the advantage of bilingualism on the development of pragmatic abilities and executive functions in children (Bialystok & Poarch, 2014; Paap & Greenberg, 2013). Many studies by Bialystok and colleagues (cf. Bialystok, Craik and Luk for a recent overview) show that bilingual children outperform their monolingual peers on different tasks, in particular those involving attentive and control abilities. Other studies showed that bilinguals outperform monolinguals in tasks tapping their pragmatic abilities (Siegal, Iozzi, & Surian, 2009).