Literature on bilingualism and cognition is characterised by a large amount of conflicting evidence. In some studies, bilinguals perform better then monolinguals on executive tasks involving inhibition, monitoring and switching but are slower on tasks of lexical processing. Other studies don’t find any significant effects and challenge the very existence of cognitive differences between monolin...

Recent research suggests that psychotypology may be one of the main factors determining L3 acquisition and use, especially so in early stages. However, existence nature multilingual learners’ perception language proximity have often only been assumed rather than measured, rarely addressed with respect to increasingly established understanding mind as a complex interconnected system. The present...

Abstract The present study explored whether emergent bilingual children showed enhanced abilities to learn L3 vocabulary including written, spoken and conceptual forms compared monolinguals, the impact of L2/L3 cross-language similarities on such an effect. To this end, we contrasted English word learning performance French fifth-graders attending either a monolingual school program or classroo...

In surveys of third language acquisition (TLA) research, mixed results demonstrate that there is no consensus among researchers regarding the advantages and/or disadvantages of bilinguality on  TLA.  The  main  concern  of  the  present  study  was,  thus,  to  probe  the  probable  differences between  Persian  monolingual  and  Azeri-Persian  bilingual  learners  of  English  regarding  their...

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...

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 / 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...

Literature on bilingualism and cognition is characterised by a large amount of conflicting evidence. In some studies, bilinguals perform better then monolinguals on executive tasks involving inhibition, monitoring and switching but are slower on tasks of lexical processing. Other studies don’t find any significant effects and challenge the very existence of cognitive differences between monolin...

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...