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Opinion: Speaking dialects trains the brain as well as bilingualism does

23 May 2016

Napoleon Katsos (Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics) discusses why speakers of two dialects may share cognitive advantage with...

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Speakers of two dialects may share cognitive advantage with speakers of two languages

27 Apr 2016

The ability of children to speak any two dialects – two closely related varieties of the same language – may confer the same cognitive advantages as...

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