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Your Native Tongue Holds a Special Place in Your Brain, Even if You Speak 10 Languages
Most people will learn one or two languages in their lives. But Vaughn Smith, a 47-year-old carpet cleaner from Washington, D.C., speaks 24. Smith is a hyperpolyglot—a rare individual who speaks more than 10 languages. In
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Bilingual Children, Jealous Dogs, and Gender Stereotypes: Our Most Impactful Articles in 2021
Top 10 articles of 2021, according to Altmetrics Attention Scores.
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Student Notebook: Emotion Processing in Bilinguals
The relationship between language and culture plays a vital role in what word is used to express a particular emotion.
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The Littlest Linguists: New Research on Language Development
New research on language acquisition, bilingualism, and speech perception.
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How Brains Seamlessly Switch between Languages
Billions of people worldwide speak two or more languages. (Though the estimates vary, many sources assert that more than half of the planet is bilingual or multilingual.) One of the most common experiences for these individuals is a
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A Real Talking Point: Bilingual Children Are Not Smarter Than Others
Remember how we all thought bilingual kids were smarter because they knew two languages? It turns out that’s not true, say researchers at Western University. J. Bruce Morton and Cassandra Lowe, who work at the
