Multilingualism
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Language preference and development of dementia among bilingual individuals.

29 Sep 2009 In bilingual individuals, regression to a primary language may be associated with development of cognitive impairment and increased risk for development of dementia. This report describes two bilingual patients who presented with early symptoms of ... Read more...

Monolingual, bilingual, trilingual: infants' language experience influences the development of a word-learning heuristic.

30 Aug 2009 How infants learn new words is a fundamental puzzle in language acquisition. To guide their word learning, infants exploit systematic word-learning heuristics that allow them to link new words to likely referents. By 17 months, infants show a ... Read more...

Primed picture naming within and across languages: an ERP investigation.

30 Aug 2009 In two experiments, while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded, participants named picture targets that were preceded by masked word primes that corresponded either to the name of the picture target or to an unrelated picture name. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Multilingualism'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Comprehensive strategy towards delivering better communications and better health care to non-English speaking New Zealanders? 7 Oct 2009
• Language preference and development of dementia among bilingual individuals. 29 Sep 2009
• [Selective inability to speak, a expression of division between two cultures] 29 Sep 2009
• Monolingual, bilingual, trilingual: infants' language experience influences the development of a word-learning heuristic. 30 Aug 2009
• Primed picture naming within and across languages: an ERP investigation. 30 Aug 2009
• Scope of lexical access in spoken sentence production: implications for the conceptual-syntactic interface. 30 Aug 2009
• Inhibition in language switching: what is inhibited when switching between languages in naming tasks? 30 Aug 2009
• Discourses of dementia: a call for an ethnographic, action research approach to care in linguistically and culturally diverse environments. 24 Aug 2009
• Applying cognitive neuropsychological principles to the rehabilitation of Spanish readers with acquired dyslexia. 24 Aug 2009
• Cross-language generalization following treatment in bilingual speakers with aphasia: a review. 24 Aug 2009
• Mental health considerations for speech-language services with bilingual Spanish-English speakers. 24 Aug 2009
• Issues and principles in service delivery to communicatively impaired minority bilingual adults in neurorehabilitation. 24 Aug 2009
• Serving linguistically and culturally diverse adults with communication disorders: multidisciplinary perspectives and evidence. 24 Aug 2009
• Treatment of adult speech and language disorders. 24 Aug 2009
• Do immigrants work in riskier jobs? 30 Jul 2009
• Interactions between a deaf child for whom English is an additional language and his specialist teacher in the first year at school: combining words and gestures. 30 Jul 2009
• Enhanced production and perception of musical pitch in tone language speakers. 30 Jul 2009
• Perceptual learning for speech. 30 Jul 2009
• The bilingual advantage in novel word learning. 30 Jul 2009
• Children discover the spectral skeletons in their native language before the amplitude envelopes. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Multilingualism'

Definition: The ability to speak, read, or write several languages or many languages with some facility. Bilingualism is the most common form. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

Descriptor UI: D019303

Alternative terms: Multilingualism; Bilingualism;

Tree Number: L01.143.506.423.452;

History Note: 97

Technical Notes: IM; do not coord with a Cat Z term to specify the languages, i.e., French-Italian bilingualism = MULTILINGUALISM only & not also FRANCE & ITALY