[Edling] The Atlantic attack on Bilingualism research

[Larry Selinker]

*i don't know this literature well enough, but is the claim a global one?,
i.e. there are cognitive advantages always for all bilingual speakers.*

*or are there some cognitive advantages for some folks under some
conditions? if the latter, then in my view, researchers should be working
them out, not fighting yes/no like political folks do.*

*ps: in doing some reading today, i have begun to realize **what a vague
and unclear term "Executive functions" has become since i last looked at
this decades ago in the 1970's with John Lamendella.*















*Best, Cheers, LarryLarry Selinker*
*ls110 at nyu.edu <ls110 at nyu.edu>*
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:20 AM, bspolsky <bspolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

> Even a neutral reader should be able to see how unfairly biased this is:
> it has no trouble finding Paap and a couple of fellow critics, but seems to
> have only found two of the many who have supported Bialystok's work.  In
> Texas in the old days, "bilingual" meant an ignorant Mexican immigrant.
> With the breakdown in manners being exploited by presidential  candidate, I
> suppose we might have expected similar tactics as some scholars seek
> popularity by wildly biased attacks like these.
> Bernard Spolsky
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