The advantages of bilingualism debate

M Antoniou - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Bilingualism was once thought to result in cognitive disadvantages, but research in recent
decades has demonstrated that experience with two (or more) languages confers a bilingual …

Justice and equity for whom? Reframing research on the “bilingual (dis) advantage”

G Luk - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2023 - cambridge.org
The search for the existence and nonexistence of bilingual advantages and disadvantages
has become a battleground marked by polarized comments and perspectives, furthering our …

Bilingual acquisition of reference: The role of language experience, executive functions and cross-linguistic effects

J Torregrossa, M Andreou, C Bongartz… - Bilingualism: Language …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The present study aims to understand which factors contribute to different patterns of use of
referring expressions by bilingual children, by considering the triangulation between …

Regulation and control: What bimodal bilingualism reveals about learning and juggling two languages

AT Frederiksen, JF Kroll - Languages, 2022 - mdpi.com
In individuals who know more than one language, the languages are always active to some
degree. This has consequences for language processing, but bilinguals rarely make …

Measuring bilingual language dominance: An examination of the reliability of the Bilingual Language Profile

DJ Olson - Language Testing, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Measuring language dominance, broadly defined as the relative strength of each of a
bilingual's two languages, remains a crucial methodological issue in bilingualism research …

The evidence of Embedded Language islands: the case of Pashto-English codeswitching

AA Khan, A Khalid, T Saleem - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigates the function and morphosyntax of English Embedded Language (EL)
islands in Pashto-English bilingual data, using the Matrix Language Frame model to explore …

Why do learners overcome non-facilitative transfer faster from an L2 than an L1? The cumulative input threshold hypothesis

J Cabrelli, M Iverson - International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
While formal L3 morphosyntactic acquisition research has focused on the roles of the L1
versus L2 during the L3 initial stages, we examine their roles during development …

Child heritage language development: An interplay between cross-linguistic influence and language-external factors

N Meir, B Janssen - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The current study investigated the mechanisms of heritage language (HL) development with
a focus on case morphology. First, the effects of cross-linguistic influence (ie, the influence of …

Code-switching and language proficiency in bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder

M Kapantzoglou, JE Brown, LM Cycyk… - Journal of Speech …, 2021 - ASHA
Purpose This study examined the frequency of code-switching by Spanish–English-
speaking children as a function of language proficiency in each language and diagnosis …

Predicting language dominance in Spanish/English bilingual adults based on relative speech-in-speech recognition scores

T Cowan, L Calandruccio, E Buss… - International …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Purpose: Multiple dimensions of language dominance, such as language proficiency and
demand for language use, can be reflected in bilinguals' speech-in-speech recognition …