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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Bialystok"”.
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Bilingualism and cognition: exploring the bilingual cognitive advantage across the lifespan
… processing and enhanced executive function (Bialystok, 2001; Bialystok & Martin, 2004). These findings have also been extended to adults whereby bilingual adults across the lifespan were found to have smaller interference effects than monolingual adults on a number of measures thought to …
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Bilingualism and cognitive development: a study on the acquisition of number skills
… in judging the grammaticality of sentences (Bialystok et al.1986); faster in the Attentional Network Test and in the Simon task (Costa et al 2007; Bialystok et al.2005).On the other hand bilinguals are disadvantaged in t asks requiring speech production : they are slower in acceding to the …
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Consciência metalinguística na aquisição bilíngue : estudo de caso de uma criança bilíngue em espanhol e português do Brasil aos nove-dez anos de idade
… 1995 e 2009; Batoréo, 2000 e 2004; Siguan, 2001; Bialystok, 2001a; Bialystok & Crago, 2007; Bialystok & Craik, 2009), tratamos de investigar o desenvolvimento da consciência metalinguística de uma criança bilíngue, considerando, especificamente, as variáveis motivação, afetividade e atitude …
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Multilingualism and Diglossia in Hong-Kong Secondary Schools: Switching effects in cognition and language processing
… extensively documented in the literature (e.g., Bialystok, 2011; Bialystok, 2015). This thesis focuses on the cognitive gains of bilinguals in task-switching, specifically. If we assume that bilinguals outperform monolinguals in non-verbal task-switching (e.g., Prior & MacWhinney, 2010; Barac & …
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PHONOLOGICAL AND LEXICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO READING AND SPELLING IN ENGLISH: A COMPARISON OF ENGLISH-L1, MANDARIN-L1 AND MALAY-L1 BILINGUAL CHILDREN
… AND IS INFLUENCED BY CROSS-LINGUISTIC FACTORS (BIALYSTOK, 2002). PHONOLOGICAL MEMORY IS ASSOCIATED WITH VOCABULARY ACQUISITION (GATHERCOLE ET AL., 1992), AND READING (GOSWAMI & BRYANT, 1990) AND SPELLING DEVELOPMENT (BROWN & HULME, 1996), YET FEW RESEARCHERS HAVE EXAMINED THESE …
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Does bilingualism confer perspective-taking advantages in language use?
… cognitive advantages in a variety of domains (Bialystok, Craik, & Luk, 2012), including insights into the perspective of others, i.e., theory of mind (Kovacs, 2009). However, little is known about the long-term impacts of bilingualism on cognition, including whether bilingual children’s …
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Processes Underlying Syntactic Control: Evaluating Linguistically Diverse Children
… awareness and executive function (e.g., Bialystok, 2010; Davidson, Raschke, & Pervez, 2010), however, child language brokers have not been distinguished in these studies. These children, due to early language-switching and translation duties, may have differential development of areas of …
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Being Your Self: Identity, Metaphysics, and the Search for Authenticity
It has been widely held in our culture for centuries that one ought to “be oneself,” an imperative often referred to as authenticity. The meaning of authenticity, however, remains contested among philosophers and largely shapeless in most people’s minds. In order to make sense of this compelling …
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The relationship between multilingualism and autism: a bidirectional approach to a complex issue
… research on non-autistic children and adults (Bialystok, 2011). Furthermore, when surveyed, autistic adults have responded positively about learning multiple languages (Digard, Sorace, Stanfield, & Fletcher-Watson, 2020). However, there is no research that currently captures the choices …