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Do many hones dull the bilingual whetstone?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2014

KENNETH R. PAAP
KENNETH R. PAAP*
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San Francisco State University, [email protected]
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In her acknowledgments Valian (2014) speculates that some of her colleagues may agree with at least some of her conclusions. I agree with most. These include that bilingualism is inconsistently correlated with superior executive function, that the overall benefits of bilingualism reported in some experiments may signify benefits unrelated to executive function (EF), that all speakers have non-linguistic ways of improving EF, and that tests for bilingual advantages should be aimed at specific mechanisms of bilingual experience and their corresponding components of EF. The remainder of my 1,000 words will be devoted to rather subtle points of disagreement.

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 41 - 42
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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