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Rothman, Jason, Vincent Deluca and Christos Pliatsikas. 2019. Linguistic immersion and structural effects on the bilingual brain: a longitudinal study. Bilingualism 22 (5) : 1160–1175.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press

Annotation

Learning and using additional languages can result in structural changes in the brain. The findings of this study state that bilingualism-induced neurological changes continue to take place across the lifespan and are strongly related to the quantity and quality of bilingual immersion, even in highly-immersed adult bilingual populations.