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I. Language acquisition and organizational effects in multilingual population

    1.    The age effect on organization: Children usually begin learning language before they can speak, produce their first words at about 1, and have mastered the basics structures of language by the age of 3.(Goldstein 322)         
            a.early in life multilingual organizational effects (same regions in Broca's area are activated)             
            b.later in life multilingual organizational effects (different regions in  Broca's area are activated)    
    2. The proficiency effect on organization             
           a.Less fluent organizational effect ( different regions in  Broca's area are activated)
            b.Very fluent organizational effect  ( same regions in Broca's area are activated)

II. Language control in multilingual population

    1.    Language overlapping 
            a.Cross talk prevention mechanisms ( the co-existence of multiple languages in one brain implies a sophisticated mechanism to prevent cross-talk)
            b.Executive control task ( not only the classical known language areas in the brain are involved, but a multitude of areas within the brain are implicated in multilingual language control) 
    2. Translations and language switching
            a.Cortical activations during translation ( the translation problem is addressed not necessarily as a language issue but is undertaken as many other non-automatized tasks are dealt with)
            b.Orthography and phonology 

III. Aphasia in the multilingual population

    1.Language 1 aphasia
    2.Language 2 aphasia
    3.Curiosities/ case studies in multilingual aphasia

IV. Benefits of multilingualism

    1.Multilingual and monolingual in general executive control tasks
    2.The effects on Alzheimer onset
    3.Brain plasticity and implications

Jump to: navigation, search Organisation of language in the brain: does it matter what language you speak? KARALYN PATTERSON* and TAKAO FUSHIMI†

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 2EF, UK † Department of Rehabilitation, School of Allied Health Science, Kitasato University, Kitasato 1-15-1 Sagamihara, Kanagawa 228–8555, Japan

Brain Organization Of Bilinguals: Loraine Kobler

-Differences between Bilingualism and Multilingualism pertaining to brain organization.

-language control, switching from one language to another.

Cognitive advantages

TCK= third culture kids Positive= a global perspective, being socially adaptable, intellectually flexible, able to think outside the box and reconcile different points of view Negative= somewhat “rootless and aloof” Example: President Obama Who typed this?? Cognitive advantages of bilinguals compared to monolinguals→ non-verbal control tasks The bilinguals’ superior performance has been linked to extensive practice with two active languages which constantly require the activation of one language and the inhibition of the other language, and the switching between the languages (Bialystok et al., 2005). Postive= Bilingualism has also been linked to an advantage in divergent thinking (Khar- khurin, 2008).