presenting a brief description of bilingualism and its correlation with cognitive development and 3rd language learning, the present research primarily aims to compare the knowledge of english vocabulary and grammar in a sample of monolingual and bilingual high school students (fourth graders) of fars and khuzestan provinces in iran. to fulfill this objective, 448 monolingual and bilingual stud...

Automatic bilingual term extraction is essential for providing a consistent bilingual term list for human translators engaged in translating a set of documents. We compare three statisticalmeasures for extracting bilingual terms from a phrase-table built from a parallel corpus. We show that these measures extract different bilingual term candidates and a combination of these measures ranks vali...

this study explored the nature of transfer among bilingual vs. trilinguals with varying levels of competence in english and their previous languages. the hypotheses were tested in writing tasks designed for 75 high (n= 35) vs. intermediate (n=40) proficient efl learners with turkish, persian, english and persian, english linguistic backgrounds. qualitative data were also collected through some ...

Background: The present study was conducted with the aim of developing a game-based cognitive-behavioral educational package and determining its effectiveness on improving the receptive language disorders and social adjustment of bilingual children. Methods:  The current study was applied in terms of purpose and in terms of the nature of the data, it was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post...

Most of the existing methods for bilingual word embedding only consider shallow context or simple co-occurrence information. In this paper, we propose a latent bilingual sense unit (Bilingual Sense Clique, BSC), which is derived from a maximum complete sub-graph of pointwise mutual information based graph over bilingual corpus. In this way, we treat source and target words equally and a separat...

This work shows how to improve state-of-the-art monolingual natural language processing models using unannotated bilingual text. We build a multiview learning objective that enforces agreement between monolingual and bilingual models. In our method the first, monolingual view consists of supervised predictors learned separately for each language. The second, bilingual view consists of log-linea...

In recent years, multi-source clustering has received a significant amount of attention. Several multi-source clustering methods have been developed from different perspectives. In this paper, aiming at addressing the problem of Chinese–Tibetan bilingual document clustering, a novel bilingual clustering scheme is proposed, which can well capture both the intralingua document structures and inte...

The bilingual advantage-enhanced cognitive control relative to monolinguals-possibly occurs due to experience engaging general cognitive mechanisms in order to manage two languages. Supporting this hypothesis is evidence that bimodal (signed language-spoken language) bilinguals do not demonstrate such an advantage, presumably because the distinct language modalities reduce conflict and control ...