Bilingual memory

Bilingualism is the regular use of two fluent languages, and bilinguals are those individuals who need and use two (or more) languages in their everyday lives.[1] A person's bilingual memories are heavily dependent on the person's fluency, the age the second language was acquired, and high language proficiency to both languages.[2] High proficiency provides mental flexibility across all domains of thought and forces them to adopt strategies that accelerate cognitive development.[3] People who are bilingual integrate and organize the information of two languages, which creates advantages in terms of many cognitive abilities, such as intelligence, creativity, analogical reasoning, classification skills, problem solving, learning strategies, and thinking flexibility.[1]

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Bilingual pedestrian sign in English and Welsh
  1. ^ a b Kormi-Nouri, Reza; Moniri, Sadegheh; Nilsson, Lars-Goran (February 2003). "Episodic and semantic memory in bilingual and monolingual children". Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 44 (1): 47–54. doi:10.1111/1467-9450.00320. PMID 12603003.
  2. ^ Swanson, Amy P. (20 August 2010). Semantic ambiguity in the lexical access of verbs: how data from monolinguals and bilinguals inform a general model of the mental lexicon (Thesis). hdl:2142/16779.
  3. ^ Kormi-Nouri, Reza; Shojaei, Razie-Sadat; Moniri, Sadegheh; Gholami, Ali-Reza; Moradi, Ali-Reza; Akbari-Zardkhaneh, Saeed; Nilsson, Lars-Göran (April 2008). "The effect of childhood bilingualism on episodic and semantic memory tasks". Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 49 (2): 93–109. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9450.2008.00633.x. PMID 18352979.