[HTML][HTML] Brain structure adapts dynamically to highly demanding bilingual experiences: Insights from interpreters and translators

M Korenar, J Treffers-Daller, C Pliatsikas - Ampersand, 2023 - Elsevier
It remains an open question how the brain adapts structurally to handle strenuous cognitive
challenges. Interpreters and translators rely on high cognitive control to regulate two …

Effects of healthy ageing and bilingualism on attention networks

R Markiewicz, F Rahman, EG Fernandes… - Bilingualism …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Both ageing and bilingualism can have positive as well as adverse cognitive effects. We
investigated their combined impact on subcomponents of attention. We used the Attention …

Do you say uh or uhm? A cross-linguistic approach to filler particle use in heritage and majority speakers across three languages

M Böttcher, M Zellers - Frontiers in Psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Filler particles like uhm in English or ähm in German show subtle language-specific
differences and their variation in form is related to socio-linguistic variables like gender. The …

The “code-switching issue”: transition from (socio) linguistic to cognitive research

G Cedden, P Meyer, B Özkara… - Bilingualism: Language …, 2024 - cambridge.org
This review investigates the complex dynamics of code-switching (CS), the spontaneous
alternation between languages within a conversation, particularly its implications for …

Language-specific cognitive flexibility is related to code-switching habits and interactional context; domain-general cognitive flexibility is not

L Gosselin, L Sabourin - Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Individualistic experience with code-switching has often been found to modulate bilingual
executive functioning, though the direction of these effects is variable. The present study …

Language switching and domain-general control in interpreters

S Nour, E Struys - Frontiers in Language Sciences, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The purpose of this paper is to examine whether and how training and professional
experience in interpreting affect task switching in this bilingual population. In the first …

Examining School Belonging and Academic Resilience Among Biliterate and Multilingual High School Students

KM Navarrete - 2024 - search.proquest.com
An increasing number of students in the United States identify as Hispanic or Latino/a.
These students enter American classrooms from varying backgrounds with diverse talents …

Usage‐Based Theory and Bilingualism

M Cole, J Dumont - The Handbook of Usage‐Based Linguistics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Decades of research on bilingualism have shown that the behaviors and phenomena are
best understood within the context of how people and communities use their languages …