Christos Pliatsikas

List of John Benjamins publications for which Christos Pliatsikas plays a role.

Title

Bi-/Multilingualism and the Declining Brain

Edited by Christos Pliatsikas, Ana Inés Ansaldo and Toms Voits

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:4 (2021) v, 158 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Alrwaita, Najla, Carmel Houston-Price and Christos Pliatsikas 2023 The effects of using two varieties of one language on cognition: Evidence from bidialectalism and diglossiaLinguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:6, pp. 830–853 | Article
Although the question of whether and how bilingualism affects executive functions has been extensively debated, less attention has been paid to the cognitive abilities of speakers of different varieties of the same language, in linguistic situations such as bidialectalism and diglossia.… read more
The study of the effects of bilingualism on brain structure has gained significant traction in the last decade, naturally following the pioneering work by Ellen Bialystok and others on the effects of bilingualism on cognition. However, despite the general interest and enthusiasm about the… read more
Aveledo, Fraibet, Yolanda Higueras, Theodoros Marinis, Arpita Bose, Christos Pliatsikas, Ariana Meldaña-Rivera, María Luisa Martínez-Ginés, José Manuel García-Domínguez, Alberto Lozano-Ros, Juan Pablo Cuello and Haydee Goicochea-Briceño 2021 Multiple sclerosis and bilingualism: Some initial findingsBi-/Multilingualism and the Declining Brain, Pliatsikas, Christos, Ana Inés Ansaldo and Toms Voits (eds.), pp. 551–577 | Article
It has been suggested that bilingualism is beneficial for executive control and could have positive long-term effects by delaying the onset of symptoms of degenerative diseases. This research investigates, for the first time, the impact of bilingualism on executive control (monitoring and… read more
Pliatsikas, Christos, Ana Inés Ansaldo and Toms Voits 2021 Bilingualism and the declining brainBi-/Multilingualism and the Declining Brain, Pliatsikas, Christos, Ana Inés Ansaldo and Toms Voits (eds.), pp. 453–458 | Introduction