This study is to determine how bilingualism could influence the list of Persian basic color terms and their order. Using a monolingual Persian and a bilingual Kurd sample students, and a color list task, it is assumed that bilingualism could change the ordering of the non-basic color terms in the second language, but not the basic ones. Another assumption is that, the old usual methods for obta...

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / FirstView Article / December 2013, pp 1 16 DOI: 10.1017/S1366728913000667, Published online: 05 December 2013 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1366728913000667 How to cite this article: MARIA POLINSKY When L1 becomes an L3: Do heritage speakers make better L3 learners? . Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Available on CJO 20...

Studies have shown that bilingual individuals consistently outperform their monolingual counterparts on tasks involving executive control. The present paper reviews some of the evidence for this conclusion and relates the findings to the effect of bilingualism on cognitive organisation and to conceptual issues in the structure of executive control. Evidence for the protective effect of bilingua...

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / Volume 17 / Issue 04 / October 2014, pp 709 728 DOI: 10.1017/S1366728913000783, Published online: 17 January 2014 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1366728913000783 How to cite this article: W. TODD MADDOX and BHARATH CHANDRASEKARAN (2014). Tests of a dual-system model of speech category learning. Bilingualism: Language and Cogn...

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / FirstView Article / February 2016, pp 1 11 DOI: 10.1017/S1366728915000917, Published online: 01 February 2016 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1366728915000917 How to cite this article: LUCY KERRIGAN, MICHAEL S. C. THOMAS, PETER BRIGHT and ROBERTO FILIPPI Evidence of an advantage in visuospatial memory for bilingual compared to...

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / FirstView Article / August 2013, pp 1 14 DOI: 10.1017/S136672891300014X, Published online: 23 April 2013 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S136672891300014X How to cite this article: NEREYDA HURTADO, THERES GRÜTER, VIRGINIA A. MARCHMAN and ANNE FERNALD Relative language exposure, processing efciency and vocabulary in Spanish–Eng...

Statistical learning is a fundamental component of language acquisition, yet to date, relatively few studies have examined whether these abilities differ in bilinguals. In the present study, we examine this issue by comparing English monolinguals with Chinese-English and English-Spanish bilinguals in a cross-situational statistical learning (CSSL) task. In Experiment 1, we assessed the ability ...

While research shows that adults attend to both segmental and suprasegmental regularities in speech, including syllabic transitional probabilities as well as stress and intonational patterns, little is known about how statistical learning operates given input from tonal languages. In the current study, we designed an artificial tone language to address several questions: can adults track regula...