Sentence examples for bilingual experience from inspiring English sources

Petitto says this suggests that the bilingual experience "wedges open" the window for learning language.

Costa, A. & Sebastián-Gallés, N. How does the bilingual experience sculpt the brain?

Studies show that the bilingual experience alters the structure of these areas.

Life with Two Languages is the first book to provide a complete and authoritative look at the nature of the bilingual experience.

The bilingual experience appears to influence the brain from infancy to old age (and there is reason to believe that it may also apply to those who learn a second language later in life).

"The collective evidence from a number of such studies suggests that the bilingual experience improves the brain's so-called executive function — a command system that directs the attention processes that we use for planning, solving problems and performing various other mentally demanding tasks".

"The bilingual has to lift more weight than the monolingual, because bilinguals experience competition within and between both their languages while listening to speech," the researchers told Live Science, in an email signed by all of them.

More plausibly, however, bilinguals experience greater competition than monolinguals in lexical decision because of activation of words in L1.

Thus an alternative prediction is that that these factors will interact, such that bilinguals experience weaker language ties in their L1 as compared to monolinguals and even weaker ties in their L2, but still better cognitive control.

Mr. Gluck's bilingual film experience dates to 1989, when he assisted on "Black Rain," the Ridley Scott film about an American police officer (Michael Douglas) in Japan.

Mared Swain, who previously worked at the Sherman, directs a production that will use innovative animated surtitles to create a truly bilingual theatrical experience.