The current study investigated the effects of bilingualism on the clinical manifestation of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in a European sample of patients. We assessed all incoming AD patients in two university hospitals within a specified timeframe. Sixty-nine monolinguals and 65 bilinguals diagnosed with probable AD were compared for time of clinical AD manifestation and diagnosis. The influence o...

The purpose of the two experiments reported here was to investigate whether bilingualism confers an advantage on children's conversational understanding. A total of 163 children aged 3-6 years were given a Conversational Violations Test to determine their ability to identify responses to questions as violations of Gricean maxims of conversation (to be informative and avoid redundancy, speak the...

Play is a very effective learning tool for children, and most of the educational systems admit this. activities are linked to: exploration, fun, freedom, investigation, enquiry, learning, social development, coping with anxieties, making sense world using up energy. Through play, children develop abilities – example they learn languages, do so, by four principles: enjoyment, method, system, pat...

The relationship between bilingualism and metalinguistic awareness was explored in Puerto Rican Spanishand English-speaking children. All subjects were from low-income backgrounds and were enrolled in a transitional bilingual education program in the United States. Two longitudinal studies were conducted. The first study examined the abilities to note and correct ungrammatical sentences in Span...