The Potential Roles of Multilingualism and Language Structural Distance in Neurocognitive Adaptation to Language Experience.
A growing body of research shows that individual differences in bilingual language experience variably contribute to neurocognitive adaptations. The trends in this work are beginning to show a specificity of adaptations to the nature and degree of bilingual experiences (e.g., duration of use, langua...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Multilingual Theories & Practices Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 1 - 26 |
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University of Toronto Press
Jun2026
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