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The Effects of Bilingualism and Multilingualism on Lexical Retrieval

@inproceedings{Young2016TheEO,
  title={The Effects of Bilingualism and Multilingualism on Lexical Retrieval},
  author={S. Young},
  year={2016}
}

S. Young

Published 2016

Psychology

This research reviews literature that has been written concerning the positive and negative cognitive impact bilingualism has on the speaker. It then takes this research one step further asking whether increasing the number of languages one speaks slows down the person’s lexical retrieval. Methods include an interview and two tests, the data from which strongly supports the hypothesis mentioned in the literature review that bilingualism slows down lexical processing. This research concludes… CONTINUE READING

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