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Showing 1 to 20 of 303 for “"Bilingualism."”.
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Dual returnees: discordant harmonious bilingualism
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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An Integrated Approach to Child Bilingualism
… in general; (2) to the particular field of child bilingualism, and (3) to the field of general linguistics.
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Shifting family bilingualism: two South African case studies
… maintain their existing Afrikaans-dominant bilingualism, or shift towards greater use of English. According to the sociolinguistic literature, there is an on-going relationship between the processes of language maintenance and shift. Factors that influence these processes include …
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The Association Between Musical Training, Bilingualism, and Executive Function
… far transfer effects of skill training, such as bilingualism and musical training, on executive function. Despite a growing interest in the subject, some areas of higher cognition have been left under- or un-examined. This dissertation presents two papers that investigated whether exposure to …
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The Relationship between Bilingualism, Cognitive Control, and Mind Wandering
<p>The unique linguistic experience of bilingualism purportedly produces cognitive control advantages. Although there is a significant body of evidence supporting this view, there are also several recently published research studies that failed to replicate bilingual advantages. Furthermore, there …
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Cognitive Processes in Second Language Reading (Orthography, Cognition, Bilingualism)
The study investigated the effects of first language (L1) orthographic structures on cognitive processing in second language (L2) reading. More specifically, two aspects of L1 orthographic effects were examined: (a) the effects of the basic unit of representation on acoustic coding strategies, and …
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Does bilingualism confer perspective-taking advantages in language use?
… little is known about the long-term impacts of bilingualism on cognition, including whether bilingual children’s advantages in inhibitory control confer lasting advantages in adulthood, and whether these advantages extend to other domains. Here we examine the effects of bilingualism on adult …
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Neural and Behavioural Effects of Bilingualism on Selective Attention
Bilingualism has been shown to modulate the neural mechanisms of selective attention, with differences between monolinguals and bilinguals observed even when they display equivalent behavioural performance in a selective attention task. This suggests that the crucial consequence of learning and …
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An investigation of studies dealing with bilingualism: review of research.
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Effects of Bilingualism on Development of Facets of Phonological Competence
In three empirical studies, the participants were Mandarin-speaking kindergarteners, first-graders and second-graders with different degrees of exposure to Southern-Min, a heritage language spoken in Taiwan. Southern-Min and Mandarin are typologically related, but are mutually unintelligible. …
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Speech Intelligibility and Bilingualism: The Effects of Age of Acquisition
One of the central questions of second language acquisition research has been what affect age of acquisition has on the language learner's eventual proficiency in a second language. Researchers have tried to determine whether there is a strong correlation between age of onset and fluency in the …
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The Effects of Cultural Orientation and Bilingualism on Inferential Comprehension
The primary purpose of this study was to (1) determine the effect of references to an unfamiliar culture on the process of drawing inferences and (2) to compare and contrast inferencing ability of Iranian students with American students with similar academic background. A secondary purpose of the …
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Code-Switching, Code-Mixing And Radical Bilingualism In U.s. Latino Texts
… Code-switching, Code-mixing and Radical Bilingualism in U.S. Latino texts investigates the nature and significance of Spanish-English code-switching in U.S. Latino texts. I analyze fiction, creative non-fiction, journalistic texts, songs, and social media messages and I carry out a …
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Perceptions of University Students toward Bilingualism in Fribourg, Barcelona, and Oxford
… explores university students’ perceptions toward bilingualism and foreign language teaching in two bilingual, European communities—Fribourg, Switzerland, and Barcelona, Spain—and at the University of Mississippi in monolingual-dominant Oxford, Mississippi. This research was conducted over a period …
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Bilingualism and cognition: exploring the bilingual cognitive advantage across the lifespan
Research has demonstrated that bilingual children who constantly juggle two languages have better controlled 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 …
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Bilingualism and cognitive development: a study on the acquisition of number skills
… in retrieving verbal stimuli (Gollan,2002).If bilingualism can exert these influence sin boosting and hampering these so general cognitive functions, bilinguals children might also show these effects across domains.We surveyed the presence of these advantages and disadvantages in a domain so …
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Deaf Children's Developing Sign Bilingualism: Dimensions Of Language Ability, Use And Awareness
… focus of this study is deafchildren's developing bilingualism in British Sign Language and English (sign bilingualism). Sign bilingualism differs from bilingualism in two spoken languages in that the two languages are differently perceived and produced. This thesis explores individual sign …
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