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Bilingualism delays clinical manifestation of Alzheimer's disease Ghent University
The literal cost of language assimilation: the impact of students' Bilingualism on future earnings Ghent University
Language Use, Literacy, and Bilingualism KU Leuven
© Oxford University Press 2012. All rights reserved. This article discusses language use, language contact and bilingualism, and literacy in Roman Egypt. The Roman conquest brought about many changes in the political, social, and cultural life of Egypt, including the linguistic situation. At no stage, however, did the Romans impose their Latin language. On all but the most official and formal occasions Greek was the preferred idiom, as in the ...
Singing hail Columbia in German and English: the sequential bilingualism of Carl Schurz Ghent University
Does bilingualism change native-language reading? Cognate effects in a sentence context Ghent University
Becoming a bilingual can change a personU+2019s cognitive functioning and language processing in a number of ways. This study focused on how knowledge of a second language (L2) influences native-language (L1) sentence reading. We used the cognate facilitation effect as a marker of cross-lingual activations in both languages. Cognates (e.g., Dutch-English schip [ship]) and controls were presented in a sentence context, while eye movements were ...