When Syrian Students Return Home, the Hardest Lesson Is Their Own Language
A new PLOS One study finds that Syrian students returning from Turkish schools face a demanding reverse academic transition, struggling ...
Tag: bilingualism
How the Young Brain Wires Itself for Language: New Neural Clues From Toddlers and Preschoolers
New neuroimaging studies reveal that brain structure, function, and social interaction leave detectable signatures of language development in young children ...
Click Languages Sharpen the Ear for Hidden Conversational Sounds, Study Finds
A new cross-linguistic study shows that speakers of click languages such as Zulu and Xhosa detect paralinguistic click sounds in ...
When Dementia Speaks Another Language: The Fight to Make Aphasia Diagnosis Fair for the World’s 7,000 Tongues
A new perspective argues that primary progressive aphasia diagnostics, built almost entirely around English, must be rebuilt around a six-level ...
Hidden Cognate Traps May Be Skewing Bilingual Word Recognition Studies
A new tutorial in Behavior Research Methods provides a seven-step automated procedure for detecting hidden cognate confounds in second-language priming ...
Bilingual Brains Share Word Forms: Five-Day Study Reveals How Cognates Transfer Across Languages
A five-day experiment with Dutch-English bilinguals shows that cognate words transfer practice benefits across languages far more strongly than translation ...
How Easily a Word Sparks a Mental Image Shapes How Bilinguals Switch Languages
A new study of Chinese–English bilinguals shows that how easily a word evokes a mental image determines whether language switching ...
Brain scanner reveals hidden differences in how bilingual minds control language
A new review argues that magnetoencephalography reveals hidden bilingualism-related differences in brain timing, oscillations, and network organization that behavior alone ...
Bilingual Parents Switch Languages Most When Explaining Words During Shared Reading
A naturalistic study of 151 bilingual families in Norway shows that parents code-switch most often when explaining word meanings rather ...
Your Language History Shapes What You Expect Sentences to Say Next
A large cross-linguistic cloze study shows that sentence constraint norms depend on both the language tested and speakers' language dominance, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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