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The Benefits of Being Bilingual
Listen to NPR’s Science Friday today at 2pm EST when host Ira Flatow talks to psychologist Janet Werker about bilingualism. A study of bilingual infants suggests that a bilingual upbringing outfits infants with more sensitive
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Why Speaking More than One Language May Delay Alzheimer’s
Time: There are many ways in which speaking another language may contribute to a well-lived life. You can talk to a whole lot more of Earth’s inhabitants, for one thing. You can also enjoy books
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An Infant’s Refined Tongue
ScienceNOW: Your baby’s language skills may surprise you. Before they speak—before they even crawl—infants can distinguish between two languages they’ve never heard before just by looking at the face of a speaker. And if they’re
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People who speak two languages are ‘better at multi-tasking and less likely to develop Alzheimer’s’
The Daily Mail: Learning a second language boosts your brain power and can protect against Alzheimer’s disease, scientists say. New research has shown that bilingual people do better in mental challenges and are more skilled
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Vieux, en bonne sante . . . et bilingue
In French, that means old, healthy . . . and bilingual. I could just as well have used Google Translate to put that phrase into Finnish or Spanish or Chinese. The fact is, I don’t
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Bilingual Babies: The Roots of Bilingualism in Newborns
According to new findings in Psychological Science, infants born to bilingual mothers exhibit different language preferences than infants born to mothers who speak only one language. Krista Byers-Heinlein and Janet F. Werker from the University
