The complexity-cost factor in bilingualism

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 36 (4):355-356 (2013)
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Abstract

Language processing changes with the knowledge and use of two languages. The advantage of being bilingual comes at the expense of increased processing demands and processing costs. I suggest considering bilingual complexity including these demands and costs. The proposed model claims effortless monolingual processing. By integrating individual and situational variability, the model would lose its idealistic touch, even for monolinguals

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