Over the last decade, research on multilingualism has grown and has provided researchers
with new insights into the mechanisms at work in the multilingual brain. While some studies …

If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective
languages? And if languages do not affect thought, why do bilinguals often perceive such …

If differences in linguistic representation lead to differences in cognition among speakers of
different languages, what happens to people who know more than one language? Knowing …

Typological differences in expressions of motion are argued to have consequences for event
conceptualization. In SLA, studies generally find transfer of L1 expressions and …

In this paper we examine whether experience with spatial metaphors for time has an
influence on people's representation of time. In particular we ask whether spatio-temporal …

Language is essentially human. It is the crowning accomplishment of our social and
cognitive competences. Language bridges society and cognition. It is a distributed emergent …

The notion of bilingual advantages in executive functions (EF) is based on the assumption
that the demands posed by cross-language interference serve as EF training. These training …

We used free association tasks to investigate second language (L2) verb-argument
constructions (VACs) and the ways in which their access is sensitive to statistical patterns of …

This article investigates bilingual versus monolingual construal of manner of motion in
speech and gesture across three languages—Mandarin, Japanese, and English—argued to …

Cross‐linguistic research on motion events has shown that Spanish speakers and English
speakers have different patterns of thinking for speaking about motion, both linguistically …