A series of recent studies have shown that the once-assumed cognitive advantage of
bilingualism finds little support in the evidence available to date. Surprisingly, however, the …

The native language changes as a result of contact with a second language, and the pattern
and degree of such change depend on a variety of factors like the bilingual experience or …

The human brain has been uniquely equipped with the remarkable ability to acquire more
than one language, as in bilingual individuals. Previous neuroimaging studies have …

Background Narrative production has been widely characterized as providing an
ecologically valid way to assess language skills in post-stroke aphasia. Although narrative …

Associative processing is central for human cognition, perception and memory. But while
associations often facilitate performance, processing irrelevant associations can interfere …

Bilingualism provides a concise and lively introduction to bilingualism as a social and
linguistic phenomenon and explains its impact on individuals and on society. Addressing …

Existing accounts of Australian Aboriginal English do not investigate the significant degree
of variation found across the continent. This book presents the first description of English …

Several studies have analyzed the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on verbal
fluency tasks in non-clinical populations. Nevertheless, the reported effects on verbal fluency …

Although the use of transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) techniques on healthy population
has been linked to facilitating language learning, studies on their effects on foreign …

This paper addresses the morpho-syntactic forms of ex-neuter-gender of Canadian
Doukhobor Russian nouns. Doukhobor Russian is a near-extinct variety of Russian spoken …