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...

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...

Bilinguals use two different language systems to mediate not only social communication, but also cognitive processes. Potential differences between bilinguals and monolinguals in task-solving strategies and patterns of cognitive decline during normal and abnormal aging have been suggested. Main contribution A research review of the area suggests that normal aging is associated with increased ...

The purpose of this study is to explore original studies which provide evidence about the effects of bilingualism on the delay of the onset of dementia, specifically Alzheimer's disease (AD). A literature review was conducted in the world's acknowledged databases: Web of Science, Scopus, and MEDLINE. Altogether, 14 original studies focusing on the research topic were detected. These included si...

Frequency effects are pervasive in studies of language, with higher frequency words being recognized faster than lower frequency words. However, the exact nature of frequency effects has recently been questioned, with some studies finding that contextual information provides a better fit to lexical decision and naming data than word frequency (Adelman et al., 2006). Recent work has cemented the...

Dual language exposure and bilingualism are relatively common experiences for children. The present review set out to synthesize the existing research on cognitive development in bilingual children and to identify the gaps and the methodological concerns present in the existing research. A search of major data bases for research conducted with typically-developing, preschool-age dual language l...

Bilingualism is a widespread phenomenon, yet its economic effects are under researched. Typically studies find that bilingual workers are disadvantaged. Governments often protect minority languages through official promotion of bilingualism, with potential economic consequences. This paper addresses the impact of bilingualism on earnings, using the example of Wales. Results show a positive raw ...