Introduction: The study of the relation between Bilingualism and the possible impact it might have on control aspect of intelligence of adults in general and a preschool child in particular has always been the subject of controversy for the researchers. This research, following the related findings and gaps in the literature and inspiring from Craik and Bialystok’s (2005) framework, tries to di...

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / Volume 17 / Issue 02 / April 2014, pp 277 293 DOI: 10.1017/S1366728913000370, Published online: 13 August 2013 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1366728913000370 How to cite this article: DARREN TANNER, KAYO INOUE and LEE OSTERHOUT (2014). Brain-based individual differences in online L2 grammatical comprehension . Bilingualism: ...

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / FirstView Article / November 2015, pp 1 16 DOI: 10.1017/S136672891400025X, Published online: 15 December 2014 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S136672891400025X How to cite this article: HILARY D. DUNCAN, NORMAN SEGALOWITZ and NATALIE A. PHILLIPS Differences in L1 linguistic attention control between monolinguals and bilinguals....

The Workshop on Biobanking Informatics in NSW 2013 (WBIN13) was held on Friday, 10 May 2013 at The Wallace Wurth Building in the University of New South Wales. This report summarises the keynotes, presentations and discussions in WBIN13 which discusses current research in the field of Biobanking Informatics in Australia and internationally Keywords—Biobanking, Informatics, SOP, integration,

The notion of bilingualism refers to all those people who use or simply know two or more languages, including dialects (Grosjean, 1994 ). Just to provide some fi gures, let us consider that something like 7,000 languages are spoken in barely 160 countries. Furthermore, in many of these countries the number of spoken languages is constantly growing due to massive immigration. This means that ove...

During the last decade, much attention has been paid to language competition in the complex systems community, that is, how the fractions of speakers of several competing languages evolve in time. In this paper we review recent advances in this direction and focus on three aspects. First we consider the shift from two-state models to three state models that include the possibility of bilingual ...

A quantitative analysis of a trans-generational, conversational corpus of Chintang (Tibeto-Burman) speakers with community-wide bilingualism in Nepali (Indo-European) reveals that children show more code-switching into Nepali than older speakers. This confirms earlier proposals in the literature that code-switching in bilingual children decreases when they gain proficiency in their dominant lan...

The relationship between stuttering and bilingualism to functional cerebral hemispheric processing was examined using a visual hemifield paradigm. Eighty native German speakers, half of whom were also proficient speakers of English as a second language (L2), were recruited. The participants were organised into four different groups according to speech status and language ability: 20 monolingual...

In recent years bilingualism has been linked to both advantages in executive control and positive impacts on aging. Such positive cognitive effects of bilingualism have been attributed to the increased need for language control during bilingual processing and increased cognitive reserve, respectively. However, a mechanistic explanation of how bilingual experience contributes to cognitive reserv...

The question of who is and who is not a bilingual is more difficult to answer than it first appears. Bilingualism was long regarded as the equal mastery of two languages, a definition that still prevails in certain glossaries of linguistics. However, today's complex world requires a more exact definition and analysis of the competencies that community members require to interact with speakers o...