Multilingual Cognitive Development and Impact

By –Neha Gupta

Ajay Rajaram

How are multi-linguistic skills developed in humans?

Motivation

Difference in cognition of multi-linguists and mono-linguists

Impact of multi-linguistic skills on other aspects of cognition and creativity

Motivation

How does bilingualism affects cognitive processes across the life span of human being?

Cognitive and Linguistic Processing in the Bilingual Mind

Neuroscience View on the working of the brains of bilingual people – uses Neuro-Imaging to study brain activation when a person switches one language to another

Cognitive control for language switching in bilinguals

Study by Anatoliy Kharkhurin examines the possible impact of bilingualism on creativity

The suggestion is that bilingualism seems to have a positive impact on creativity

However, does bilingualism have a direct impact on creativity or does it impact the mechanisms and processes underlying creativity? (Hommel et al. 2011)

Bilingualism and Creativity across Cultures

Studies cognitive factors in bilingual children, and how children develop the ability to speak the right language at the right time

Cognitive Factors in Bilingual Children’s Pragmatic Language Skills

“Dialogue through design: visual communication across the cultural divide”, Kara Pecknold

“In translation: a visualization of Language”, Linda Becker

References from ACM C&C

Survey of related work Experiments to support the conclusion

Methodology of Work

Paper providing an insight into the development and impact of multi-linguistic skills, especially in children

Correlation between linguistic skills and other non-linguistic creative and cognitive abilities - music, arithmetic, art, etc

Experimental data pertaining to multilingualism and to support the above hypothesis

Expected Outcome

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