Bilingualism and Executive Function

An interdisciplinary approach

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:5 (2016)

Editors

Irina A. Sekerina | College of Staten Island & CUNY

Lauren Spradlin | CUNY

[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 6:5] 2016. vi, 213 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.6.5

Table of Contents

Introduction
Bilingualism and executive function: An interdisciplinary approach Irina A. Sekerina and Lauren Spradlin	505–516
Articles
The signal and the noise: Finding the pattern in human behavior Ellen Bialystok	517–534
Research on individual differences in executive functions: Implications for the bilingual advantage hypothesis Naomi P. Friedman	535–548
What cognitive processes are likely to be exercised by bilingualism and does this exercise lead to extra-linguistic cognitive benefits? Raymond M. Klein	549–564
Putting together bilingualism and executive function Virginia Valian	565–574
Executive control in bilingual children: Factors that influence the outcomes Klara Marton	575–589
Does bilingualism protect against cognitive aging? Methodological issues in research on bilingualism, cognitive reserve, and dementia incidence Caitlin Wei-Ming Watson, Jennifer J. Manly and Laura B. Zahodne	590–604
Teasing apart factors influencing executive function performance in bilinguals and monolinguals at different ages Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Enlli Thomas, Nestor Viñas Guasch, Ivan Kennedy, Cynog Prys, Nia Young, Emily J. Roberts, Emma K. Hughes and Leah Jones	605–647
Effects of dense code-switching on executive control Julia Hofweber, Theodoros Marinis and Jeanine Treffers-Daller	648–668
Referring expressions and executive functions in bilingualism Antonella Sorace	669–684
Investigating grammatical processing in bilinguals: The case of morphological priming Harald Clahsen and João Veríssimo	685–698
Cooking pasta in La Paz: Bilingualism, bias and the replication crisis Thomas H. Bak	699–717

Subjects

Linguistics

Cognition and language

Theoretical linguistics

Multilingualism

Psycholinguistics

Language acquisition

Psychology

Cognitive psychology

Main BIC Subject

CFDM: Bilingualism & multilingualism

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General