An investigation into the relationship between bilingualism and attentional networks with a focus on linguistic distance and language proficiency.

Continuous control of two languages during speech production may result in a ‘bilingual advantage’, where highly proficient bilinguals outperform monolinguals on nonverbal cognitive tasks. Greater linguistic distance between two bilingual languages is expected to influence this relationship, where b...

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Main Author: Wierzbicki, Sylwia
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net10539/13400