We present the case study of MB-a bilingual child with Down syndrome (DS) who speaks Russian (first language [L1]) and English (second language [L2]) and has learned to read in two different alphabets with different symbol systems. We demonstrate that, in terms of oral language, MB is as proficient in Russian as English, with a mild advantage for reading in English, her language of formal instr...

T he central purpose of this Translation is to articulate the evidence from a range of scholarly disciplines for the importance of promoting bilingualism, particularly SpanishEnglish bilingualism, among American children. A parallel— but related—aim of this piece is to argue for the clinical and public health importance of promoting Spanish proficiency (and, hence, Spanish-English bilingualism)...

Symposium Presenters: Ton Dijkstra ([email protected]) Donders Centre for Cognition, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Laurie B. Feldman Department of Psychology, the University at Albany, SUNY & Haskins Labs, USA Ping Li ([email protected]) Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, USA Li-Hai Tan ([email protected]) School of Humanities, State Key Lab of Brain and Cognitiv...

Cerebral gray-matter volume (GMV) decreases in normal aging but the extent of the decrease may be experience-dependent. Bilingualism may be one protective factor and in this article we examine its potential protective effect on GMV in a region that shows strong age-related decreases-the left anterior temporal pole. This region is held to function as a conceptual hub and might be expected to be ...

Citation: Pliatsikas C and Chondrogianni V (2015) Editorial: Learning a non-native language in a naturalistic environment: insights from behavioral and neuroimaging research. Research on bilingualism has boomed in the past two decades. The processes by which a second language is acquired and processed has been investigated via linguistic, psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistic perspectives, focu...

40 The Hearing Journal January 2017 H ow does bilingualism affect listening? We think of bilingualism— and language experience more broadly—as a form of auditory learning. Children who grow up speaking multiple languages have enriched auditory environments. They need to focus on making multiple sound-tomeaning connections in their ongoing interactions. While they are speaking one language, they...

background and aim: bilingualism is an important phenomenon with different effects on each aspect of language processing. auditory temporal processing is a major component of the auditory processing ability. since bilingual and monolingual individual’s brain process are different, and no studies have yet been conducted on the effect of temporal processing on speech recognition performance of az...

We examined the influence of bilingual experience and inhibitory control on the ability to learn a novel language. Using a statistical learning paradigm, participants learned words in two novel languages that were based on the International Morse Code. First, participants listened to a continuous stream of words in a Morse code language to test their ability to segment words from continuous spe...

The clinical assessment of language impairment (LI) in bilingual children imposes challenges for speech-language pathology services. Assessment tools standardized for monolingual populations increase the risk of misinterpreting bilingualism as LI. This Perspective article summarizes recent studies on the assessment of bilingual LI and presents new results on including non-linguistic measures of...