[lg policy] Speakers of two dialects may share cognitive advantage with speakers of two languages

[Dave Sayers]

"Dr Kyriakos Antoniou and Dr Napoleon Katsos from the University of Cambridge studied 
the cognitive performance of children who grew up speaking both Cypriot Greek and 
Standard Modern Greek – two varieties of Greek which are closely related but differ 
from each other on all levels of language analysis (vocabulary, pronunciation and 
grammar).

The study showed that multilingual and bi-dialectal children exhibited an advantage 
over monolingual children that was evident in composite cognitive processes including 
memory, attention and cognitive flexibility; suggesting that advantages previously 
reported for multilingual children could be shared by children speaking any two or 
more dialects."

 From an online piece here: https://goo.gl/Qh1ryr

...which was based on a journal article here: 
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.12.002

Dave

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Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University | www.shu.ac.uk
Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD | www.wiserd.ac.uk
dave.sayers at cantab.net | http://shu.academia.edu/DaveSayers

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