The inter-relationship of stuttering and bilingualism to functional cerebral hemispheric processing was examined on a dual-task paradigm. Eighty native German (L1) speakers, half of whom were sequential bilinguals (L2 = English), were recruited. The participants (mean age = 38.9 years) were organised into four different groups according to speech status and language ability: 20 bilinguals who s...

Abstract In response to negative yes–no questions (e.g., Doesn’t she like cats? ), typical English answers ( Yes, does / No, doesn’t ) peculiarly vary from those in Mandarin ). What are the processing consequences of these markedly different conventionalized linguistic responses achieve same communicative goals? And if and speakers process differently, what extent change Mandarin–English sequen...

In this paper, we propose a novel framework of a multilingual distributional semantic model to provide a psychologically plausible computational model of the bilingual mental lexicon. In the proposed framework, a monolingual semantic space for each target language is first generated from the corresponding monolingual corpus. These monolingual semantic spaces are then converted into ones with co...

Although numerous people grow up speaking more than one language, the impact of bilingualism on brain developing neuroanatomy is still poorly understood. This study aimed to determine whether the changes in the mean fractional-anisotropy (MFA) of language pathways are different between bilingual and monolingual children. Simultaneous-bilinguals, sequential-bilinguals and monolingual, male and f...

The present study sought to examine the effect of dual language activation on L1 speech in late English–Austrian German sequential bilinguals, and identify relevant predictor variables. To this end, we compared English patterns adult migrants Austria a code-switched monolingual condition alongside those native speakers England condition. In materials, words containing target segments known trig...

Previous studies have indicated that bilingualism may influence the efficiency of lexical access in adults. The goals of this research were (1) to compare bilingual and monolingual adults on their native-language vocabulary performance, and (2) to examine the relationship between short-term memory skills and vocabulary performance in monolinguals and bilinguals. In Experiment 1, English-speakin...

We explore the perception and production of English statements, absolute yes-no questions, declarative questions by Inuktitut-English sequential bilinguals. Inuktitut does not mark stress, intonation is used as a cue for phrasing, while statements are morphologically marked suffix added to verbal root. Conversely, both prosodically syntactically marked, whereas difference between prosodic. To d...

This study compares lexical retrieval amongst monolinguals and intermediate bilinguals and advanced bilinguals. It also investigates the possible effects of their language learning strategies on their respective lexical retrieval advantage. The study used a mixed methods design and the groups consisted of 20 Persian near-monolinguals, 20 Persian-English intermediate level bilinguals, and 20 Per...

The brain demonstrates a remarkable capacity to undergo structural and functional change in response to experience throughout the lifespan. Evidence suggests that, in many domains of skill acquisition, the manifestation of this neuroplasticity depends on the age at which learning begins. The fact that most skills are acquired late in childhood or in adulthood has proven to be a limitation in st...