<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>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.</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><br></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b style="font-size:12.8px">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.</b><b><br></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b style="font-size:12.8px"><br></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b style="font-size:12.8px">ps: in doing some reading today, i have begun to realize </b><b>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.</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><br></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><br></b></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><b><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div>Best, <br><br>Cheers, <br><br>Larry<br><br>Larry Selinker</font></b><div><b style="font-size:12.6666669845581px"><u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="mailto:ls110@nyu.edu" target="_blank">ls110@nyu.edu</a></font></u></b><div><div><b><a href="http://www.researchproductionassociates.com/" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">http://www.researchproductionassociates.com/</font></a></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:20 AM, bspolsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bspolsky@gmail.com" target="_blank">bspolsky@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div>Bernard Spolsky<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Bernard Spolsky <a href="mailto:bspolsky@gmail.com" target="_blank">bspolsky@gmail.com</a> Professor emeritus, Bar-Ilan University<br>URL: <a href="http://www.biu.ac.il/faculty/spolsb/" target="_blank">http://english.biu.ac.il/faculty/spolsky-bernard</a><div>Home address for all mail : 4 Nili Street, Apt 7, 9254803 Jerusalem ISRAEL</div><div>Phone: <a href="tel:%2B972-2-628-2044" value="+97226282044" target="_blank">+972-2-628-2044</a> Cell phone: <a href="tel:%2B972-52-421-8146" value="+972524218146" target="_blank">+972-52-421-8146</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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