The Ginger Marcus Foreign Language Learning Speaker Series - Lecture
Dr. John W. Schwieter
Language Acquisition, Multilingualism, and Cognition Lab / Bilingualism Matters
Department of Psychology
Department of Languages and Literatures
Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Lecture: Tuesday, March 26, 2024, at 4 pm in Hurst Lounge
Cognitive and Neural Consequences
of Two (or more) Languages in One Mind
Individuals who have proficiency in more than one language can often name an object using more than one word. For instance, a Spanish-Czech speaker may call a cat either a gato or kočka. Yet, these words refer to the same animal. This multiple-word-to-one-concept mapping, along with many other factors and multilingual experiences, have important implications for language processing and the brain. This talk offers an overview of how words in different languages are represented and processed, and why multilingualism may lead to long-lasting, cognitive advantages.
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*The Ginger Marcus Foreign Language Learning Speaker Series at Washington University in St. Louis is sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; the Department of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures; Applied Linguistics Program; the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.