The effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on executive functions
Studies have shown that bilinguals and multilinguals have superior performance compared to monolinguals in nonlinguistic tasks that tap into executive functioning. However, studies of bilingual and multilingual advantages in linguistic tasks are fewer and the results are less consensual. In Brazil,...
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística
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| description | Studies have shown that bilinguals and multilinguals have superior performance compared to monolinguals in nonlinguistic tasks that tap into executive functioning. However, studies of bilingual and multilingual advantages in linguistic tasks are fewer and the results are less consensual. In Brazil, the positive effects of executive functions in bilingualism have not been consistently identified in the bilingual populations, especially in speakers of the minority language Hunsrückisch (a German dialect). The main goal of this study was to investigate the performance of bilinguals and multilinguals speakers of Hunsrückisch compared to monolinguals in a nonlinguistic task, the Attentional Network Task, and in a linguistic task, the Sentence Comprehension Task. The results show that multilinguals were faster in comparison to monolinguals in the nonlinguistic task. The results for the linguistic task, in turn, show that the monolinguals had more facility to inhibiting the linguistic interference. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4bc80f28231c4050ac71d4e675d314222022-12-22T03:52:53ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-graduação em LinguísticaFórum Linguístico1415-86981984-84122014-09-0111326127710.5007/1984-8412.2014v11n3p26123666The effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on executive functionsBernardo Kolling Limberger0Augusto Buchweitz1PUC - RSPUC - RSStudies have shown that bilinguals and multilinguals have superior performance compared to monolinguals in nonlinguistic tasks that tap into executive functioning. However, studies of bilingual and multilingual advantages in linguistic tasks are fewer and the results are less consensual. In Brazil, the positive effects of executive functions in bilingualism have not been consistently identified in the bilingual populations, especially in speakers of the minority language Hunsrückisch (a German dialect). The main goal of this study was to investigate the performance of bilinguals and multilinguals speakers of Hunsrückisch compared to monolinguals in a nonlinguistic task, the Attentional Network Task, and in a linguistic task, the Sentence Comprehension Task. The results show that multilinguals were faster in comparison to monolinguals in the nonlinguistic task. The results for the linguistic task, in turn, show that the monolinguals had more facility to inhibiting the linguistic interference.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/forum/article/view/38601BilingualismMultilingualismExecutive FunctioningMinority Languages |
| spellingShingle | Bernardo Kolling Limberger Augusto Buchweitz The effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on executive functions Fórum Linguístico Bilingualism Multilingualism Executive Functioning Minority Languages |
| title | The effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on executive functions |
| title_full | The effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on executive functions |
| title_fullStr | The effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on executive functions |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on executive functions |
| title_short | The effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on executive functions |
| title_sort | effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on executive functions |
| topic | Bilingualism Multilingualism Executive Functioning Minority Languages |
| url | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/forum/article/view/38601 |
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