Being bilingual: What juggling two languages tells us about the mind and the brain - CANCELLED
CRBLM Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Judith Kroll (Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Women鈥檚 Studies and Director of the Center for Language Science at Pennsylvania State University)
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Cancelled due to illness - to be rescheduled for coming months
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Abstract:
Until recently, research on language and its cognitive interface focused almost exclusively on monolingual speakers of a single language and typically speakers of English as the native language. In the past decade, the recognition that more of the world鈥檚 speakers are bilingual than monolingual has led to a dramatic increase in research that assumes bilingualism as the norm rather than the exception. This new research investigates the way in which bilinguals and second language learners negotiate the presence of two languages in a single mind and brain. A critical insight is that bilingualism and second language learning provide a tool for examining aspects of the cognitive architecture that are otherwise obscured by the skill associated with native language performance. In this talk, I illustrate this approach to language processing and its neural basis and consider the consequences that bilingualism holds for cognition more generally.