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Bilingualism, Neurolinguistic Studies
(3,442 words)

How does one brain handle two languages? How does the bilingual brain change in both function and structure as a result of learning a second language (L2)? Bilingualism and second language acquisition issues have attracted the attention of not just second language teachers and psycholinguists, but also neuroscientists. Neuroscientists u…

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Jing YANG, “Bilingualism, Neurolinguistic Studies”, in: Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, General Editor Rint Sybesma. Consulted online on 22 March 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2210-7363_ecll_COM_000076>
First published online: 2015



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