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.
Christos Pliatsikas
List of John Benjamins publications for which Christos Pliatsikas plays a role.
Title
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2023 The effects of using two varieties of one language on cognition: Evidence from bidialectalism and diglossia Linguistic 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
2023 Chapter 14. Bilingualism and brain structure: Insights from healthy ageing and progressive neurodegenerative diseases Understanding Language and Cognition through Bilingualism: In honor of Ellen Bialystok, Luk, Gigi, John A.E. Anderson and John G. Grundy (eds.), pp. 301–316 | Chapter
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
2021 Multiple sclerosis and bilingualism: Some initial findings Bi-/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
2021 Bilingualism and the declining brain Bi-/Multilingualism and the Declining Brain, Pliatsikas, Christos, Ana Inés Ansaldo and Toms Voits (eds.), pp. 453–458 | Introduction