Beyond Alzheimer's disease: Can bilingualism be a more generalized protective factor in neurodegeneration?

T Voits, C Pliatsikas, H Robson, J Rothman - Neuropsychologia, 2020 - Elsevier
Bilingualism has been argued to have an impact on cognition and brain structure. Effects
have been reported across the lifespan: from healthy children to ageing adults, including …

How do bilinguals switch between languages in different interactional contexts? A comparison between voluntary and mandatory language switching

M Jevtović, JA Duñabeitia, A de Bruin - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2020 - cambridge.org
How bilinguals switch between languages depends on the context. In a voluntary context,
bilinguals are free to decide when to switch, whereas in a cued context they are instructed …

Does integrating a code-switch during comprehension engage cognitive control?

RM Adler, JR Valdés Kroff… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
We investigated whether bilinguals' integration of a code-switch during real-time
comprehension, which involves resolving among conflicting linguistic representations …

Bilingual acquisition: The early steps

N Sebastian-Galles, C Santolin - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
How different is the process of language learning in infants exposed to two languages from
birth? Not so long ago, the available evidence pointed to a delay in language learning in …

Examining bilingual language switching across the lifespan in cued and voluntary switching contexts.

A de Bruin, AG Samuel… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
How bilinguals control their languages and switch between them may change across the life
span. Furthermore, bilingual language control may depend on the demands imposed by the …

Translation equivalent and cross-language semantic priming in bilingual toddlers

C Floccia, C Delle Luche, I Lepadatu, J Chow… - Journal of Memory and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In adult bilinguals, a word in one language will activate a related word in the other language,
with language dominance modulating the direction of these effects. To determine whether …

[图书][B] Distributed languaging, affective dynamics, and the human ecology volume I: The sense-making body

PJ Thibault - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Language plays a central role in human life. However, the term 'language'as defined in the
language sciences of the 20th century and the traditions these have drawn on, have …

Co-activation of the L2 during L1 auditory processing: An ERP cross-modal priming study

SC Bobb, K Von Holzen, J Mayor, N Mani… - Brain and language, 2020 - Elsevier
Several studies have shown that unbalanced bilinguals activate both of their languages
simultaneously during L2 processing; however, evidence for L2 activation while participants …

Using the DRM paradigm to assess language processing in monolinguals and bilinguals

E Bialystok, A Dey, MD Sullivan, MS Sommers - Memory & Cognition, 2020 - Springer
Both languages are jointly activated in the bilingual brain, requiring bilinguals to select the
target language while avoiding interference from the unwanted language. This cross …

The effect of second-language vocabulary on word retrieval in the native language

E Higby, S Donnelly, J Yoon, LK Obler - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2020 - cambridge.org
When bilinguals produce words in one language, their translation equivalents in the other
language are thought to be activated as well. A common assumption is that this parallel co …