Lecture
Understanding bilingualism in context
- Date
- Tuesday 17 September 2024
- Time
- Location
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Reuvens
Reuvensplaats 3-4
2311 BE Leiden - Room
- LUCL Common Room
The NWO project Crossing Language Borders (led by Enoch Aboh, Felix Ameka, and M. Carmen Parafita Couto) is pleased to announce a special talk by their project partner Annie L. Beatty-Martínez. We invite everyone for coffee/tea and cookies at 15.30. The talk will start at 16.00.
Abstract
Bilingualism is the norm, not the exception. In recent years, the research on bilingualism has revealed exciting new findings about how people grow up and live with two or more languages in different contexts. But are all bilinguals the same? Contrary to the view that bilinguals are two monolinguals in one person, the emerging evidence shows that bilinguals differ by virtue of where they live and how they use their languages. In this talk, I discuss recent discoveries about bilingualism and its influences on the brain, mind, and behavior.