Understanding Language and Cognition through Bilingualism
In honor of Ellen Bialystok
Bilingualism is a ubiquitous global phenomenon. Beyond being a language experience, bilingualism also entails a social experience, and it interacts with development and learning, with cognitive and neural consequences across the lifespan. The authors of this volume are world renowned experts across several subdisciplines including linguistics, developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. They bring to light bilingualism’s cognitive, developmental, and neural consequences in children, young adults, and older adults. This book honors Ellen Bialystok, and highlights her profound impact on the field of bilingualism research as a lifelong experience. The chapters are organized into four sections: The first section explores the complexity of the bilingual experience beyond the common characterization of “speaking multiple languages.” The next section showcases Ellen Bialystok’s earlier impact on psychology and education; here the contributors answer the question “how does being bilingual shape children’s development?” The third section explores cognitive and neuroscientific theories describing how language experience modulates cognition, behavior, and brain structures and functions. The final section shifts the focus to the impact of bilingualism on healthy and abnormal aging and asks whether being bilingual can stave off the effects of dementia by conferring a “cognitive reserve.”
[Studies in Bilingualism, 64] 2023. vi, 394 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 12 May 2023
Published online on 12 May 2023
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. PrologueGigi Luk | pp. 1–10
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Section I. Bilingualism is more
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Chapter 2. From the spatial ego to cognitive control: Ellen Bialystok’s early work, 1976–1988Sibylla Leon Guerrero and Gigi Luk | pp. 12–37
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Chapter 3. Defining bilingualism as a continuum: Some tools and consequences for the study of bilingual mind and brain effectsJason Rothman, Fatih Bayram, Vincent DeLuca, Jorge González Alonso, Maki Kubota and Eloi Puig-Mayenco | pp. 38–67
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Chapter 4. BiliteracyCatherine McBride and Fateme Mohseni | pp. 68–85
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Chapter 5. Beyond bilingualism: Code-switching and its cognitive and social correlatesOdilia Yim | pp. 86–119
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Section II. Bilingualism in development and learning
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Chapter 6. Bilingual cognitive differences
within the context of socioeconomic statusNatalie H. Brito | pp. 122–141 -
Chapter 7. Bilingualism in development: The good, the bad and the unknownDiane Poulin-Dubois | pp. 142–168
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Chapter 8. Metalinguistic awareness in bilingualsDeanna Friesen and Chastine Lamoureux | pp. 169–187
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Chapter 9. Learning through bilingual education: Cognitive and academic impactsAlena G. Esposito and Sangmi Park | pp. 188–208
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Section III. Cognition and neuroscience
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Chapter 10. Models and metaphors: Mapping language experience to cognitionJudith F. Kroll and Eleonora Rossi | pp. 210–229
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Chapter 11. Bilingual language control during conversationDavid W. Green and Jubin Abutalebi | pp. 230–244
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Chapter 12. Domain-general electrophysiological changes associated with bilingualismJohn G. Grundy and Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim | pp. 245–271
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Chapter 13. Bilingualism and functional connectivity: The path to efficiency across the lifespanJohn A. E. Anderson | pp. 272–300
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Chapter 14. Bilingualism and brain structure: Insights from healthy ageing and progressive neurodegenerative diseasesChristos Pliatsikas | pp. 301–316
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Section IV. Bilingualism, aging, and cognitive reserve
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Chapter 15. The effects of bilingualism on cognitive functioning in older adultsFergus I. M. Craik | pp. 318–342
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Chapter 16. Role of bilingualism
in neurodegenerative disease I: Alzheimer’sMinahil Shahid, Yu Bin Tan, Tom A. Schweizer and Corinne E. Fischer | pp. 343–356 -
Chapter 17. Role of bilingualism
in neurodegenerative disease II: Beyond Alzheimer’sToms Voits | pp. 357–373 -
Chapter 18. The road ahead: Ellen Bialystok’s lasting legacyJohn A. E. Anderson and John G. Grundy | pp. 374–383
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Index | pp. 385–394
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFDM: Bilingualism & multilingualism
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General