32.1035, FYI: Minna Lehtonen ExLing Tutorial: Multilingualism and Cognition

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-1035. Sun Mar 21 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.1035, FYI: Minna Lehtonen ExLing Tutorial: Multilingualism and Cognition

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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 23:23:15
From: Antonis Botinis [info at exlingsociety.com]
Subject: Minna Lehtonen ExLing Tutorial: Multilingualism and Cognition

 
Command of two or more languages can have many communicative benefits for an
individual, but the question of whether bilingualism can also have beneficial
effects on cognition and the brain has been debated in recent years.

The management of two languages in one mind is assumed to engage so-called
domain-general executive functions that are important in controlling and
regulating our behaviour. This putative cognitive advantage in bilinguals has
thus been assumed to be due to the massive training of executive functions
that bilinguals have accumulated due to their long experience in suppressing
interference from the competing language or in frequent language switching.

In this talk, I will review the current evidence from behavioural tasks and
brain-level studies and present ways, both methodological and theory-driven,
in which the field could move forward.

For further information, please visit the ExLing Society site at:

https://exlingsociety.com/exling-tutorials.html
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics





 



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