In “The Devil's Dictionary”, Bierce (1911) defined language as “The music with which we
charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.” This satirical definition reflects a core truth …

Upon hearing someone's speech, a listener can access information such as the speaker's
age, gender identity, socioeconomic status, and their linguistic background. However, an …

An increasing amount of research has examined the effects of bilingualism on performance
in theory of mind (ToM) tasks. Bilinguals outperform monolinguals in ToM when comparing …

While heritage language (HL) research initially spun off the larger field of first and second
language acquisition, it soon became its own field of study. The last two decades have seen …

It is well recognized in cognitive science that people differ in their language abilities, where
even those who appear to behave similarly can reach the same outcome via different …

Purpose Culture is considered a critical aspect of social media usage. The purpose of this
paper is to explore how cultures and languages influence multilingual users' cross-cultural …

Diverse bilingual experiences have implications for language comprehension, including
pragmatic elements such as verbal irony. Irony comprehension is shaped by an interplay of …

Parental reflective functioning refers to parents' capacity to consider their child's internal
experiences and is associated with secure parent–child attachment, sensitive parenting …

Menopause is associated with declines in cognitive control. However, there is individual
variability in the slope of this decline. Recent work suggests that indices of cognitive control …

Purpose: People are shaped holistically by dynamic and interrelated individual and social-
ecological systems. This perspective has been discussed in the context of varied aspects of …