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Sunny review casts a foreboding shadow over status quo bilingual advantage research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2014

J. Bruce Morton
J. Bruce Morton*
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University of Western Ontario
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For several years now, headlines around the world have been trumpeting the cognitive control advantages enjoyed by bilinguals. As the story goes, a lifetime of experience selecting between two competing languages leads to improvements in control that generalize beyond the domain of language. It even protects the brain from the untoward effects of aging.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , September 2014 , pp. 929 - 931
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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