The Hispanic community faces a unique and complex challenge: the art of code-switching. This linguistic duality allows us to navigate a world where cultural identity, professional advancement and ...

Interests: Sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology including language and gender, language and ethnicity, bilingualism and code-switching, the ethnography of speaking and performance, ...

Bilingual children outperform children who speak only one language in problem-solving skills and creative thinking, according to new research. Bilingual children outperform children who speak only one ...

A team of researchers has uncovered the distinct computations that occur when we switch between different languages, a finding that provides new insights into the nature of bilingualism. "A remarkable ...

Bilingual toddlers often use two languages within a single sentence. While this mode of expression is often looked down upon in society, it is actually the child's attempt to communicate more ...

Not so long ago bilingualism was thought to be bad for your brain. But it looks more and more like speaking more than one language could help save you from Alzheimer's disease. The latest evidence ...

People who spoke two languages daily in their youth tended to score higher on memory tests later in life, the researchers found. By Jaya Padmanabhan Speaking two languages provides the enviable ...