The present paper summarizes research showing that bilingualism affects linguistic and
cognitive performance across the lifespan. The effect on linguistic performance is generally
seen as a deficit in which bilingual children control a smaller vocabulary than their …

Previous work has shown that bilingualism is associated with more effective controlled
processing in children; the assumption is that the constant management of 2 competing
languages enhances executive functions (E. Bialystok, 2001). The present research …

Les études ont montré que les individus bilingues performent systématiquement mieux que
les individus monolingues dans des tâches de contrôle exécutif. Dans le présent article,
certaines données appuyant cette conclusion sont revues et mises en relation avec l'effet du …

" Bilingualism in Development explores language and cognitive development in bilingual
children, focusing on the preschool years. It begins by defining what we mean by
bilingualism and what the standards are for considering children to be bilingual. Then it …

Building on earlier evidence showing a beneficial effect of bilingualism on children's
cognitive development, we review recent studies using both behavioral and neuroimaging
methods to examine the effects of bilingualism on cognition in adulthood and explore …

In this article, I review research examining the effect of bilingualism on children's cognitive
development and in particular, executive function. I describe studies reporting bilingual
advantages in various tasks to identify the process or component of executive function that …

A framework for relating degree of bilingualism to aspects of linguistic awareness is
presented in which metalinguistic tasks are described in terms of their demands for analysis
of knowledge or control of processing. Two studies are reported in which children differing in …

The present studies revealed different factors associated with the reported advantages
found in fully bilingual children for metalinguistic awareness and executive control.
Participants were 100 children in Study 1 and 80 children in Study 2 in the process of …

This study examined the effects of differing degrees of bilingualism on the nonverbal
problemsolving abilities of children in grade 3. Three linguistic groups were compared on
problem-solving tasks designed to measure control of attention or analysis of knowledge …

The article reports research investigating the way bilingualism affects cognitive and linguistic
performance across the life span. In general, bilingualism appears to have both benefits and
costs. Regarding costs, bilinguals typically have lower formal language proficiency than …