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Publication details [#60813]

Manchon, Mélanie, Karin Buetler, Françoise Colombo, Lucas Spierer, Frédéric Assal and Jean-Marie Annoni. 2015. Impairment of both languages in late bilinguals with dementia of the Alzheimer type. Bilingualism 18 (1) : 90–100.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | dementia | language deficiency | language pathology | language processing

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study demonstrates that neurodegenerative diseases similarly impact L1 and L2, especially as to semantic, lexical and syntactic processing. These findings suggest a shared L1 and L2 network in late adult bilinguals.