Plasticity, variability and age in second language acquisition and bilingualism

D Birdsong - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
… learned in infancy is the dominant language of a bilingual: the neural mechanisms involved
… depart from balanced bilingualism, as measured by BLP scores: balanced bilinguals perform …

Becoming a balanced, proficient bilingual: Predictions from age of acquisition & genetic background

KA Vaughn, AE Hernandez - Journal of neurolinguistics, 2018 - Elsevier
age of second language acquisition (AoA) in order to predict levels of bilingual proficiency in
Spanish-English bilinguals… the genetic variants and bilingual proficiency depended on AoA. …

Language balance and switching ability in children acquiring English as a second language

C Goriot, M Broersma, JM McQueen, S Unsworth… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - Elsevier
… found between the early-English and control pupils in any of the age groups. Our results
show that devoting 15% of the teaching time or less to foreign language learning does not foster …

Bilingual children's long‐term outcomes in English as a second language: language environment factors shape individual differences in catching up with …

J Paradis, R Jia - Developmental science, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… impacts their rate of language development with respect to … measures, and whether the
balance of variance explained by … of the mechanisms of language development, specifically, of …

Bilingualism as an unstable state

NS Alexandrova, VA Antonets, OA Kuzenkov… - … on Cognitive Sciences, 2020 - Springer
… description of the mechanisms of language acquisition. The … The model is a system of two
balance equations describing the … of native speakers only of the second language, and \(b\) …

Bilingualism and language similarity modify the neural mechanisms of selective attention

A Olguin, M Cekic, TA Bekinschtein, N Katsos… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
… attended speech in early balanced bilinguals of typologically … Here we investigate how early
second-language acquisitionlearning and using a second language influence the neural …

Active bilingualism in aging: Balanced bilingualism usage and less frequent language switching relate to better conflict monitoring and goal maintenance ability

CGH Chan, WQ Yow, A Oei - The Journals of Gerontology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… control mechanisms and context under which bilingualismage of second language
acquisition, participants found it challenging to recall the exact age when they first learnt a language

Predictors of language dominance: An integrated analysis of first language attrition and second language acquisition in late bilinguals

MS Schmid, G Yılmaz - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Balanced bilingualism or dominance reversal were much rarer among the Turks and the …
In order to gain more insight into the mechanisms of the development of language dominance, it …

Highly proficient, balanced bilingualism is related to thinner cortex in two cognitive control regions

HL Claussenius‐Kalman, KA Vaughn… - Annals of the New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… 2), 4 but to examine the neural mechanisms that underlie high dual languageages. This
means that structural plasticity in response to second language acquisition in childhood may …

Early bilingualism predicts enhanced later foreign language learning in secondary school.

MVH Nguyen, A Winsler - Developmental Psychology, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
… have been discussed in the literature, including usage, balance, age of acquisition, … school
and can be another mechanism through which early bilingualism can lead to better academic …