Talking in a second language doesn’t affect neural synchrony between bilingual mothers and children, a new study has found. The researchers analysed whether the language used between mothers and ...

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'Code-switching' was originally coined as a linguistic term for the ways in which bilingual people engage with language. It describes bilingual speakers alternating between literal linguistic codes in ...

Before the 1950s, prevailing research indicated that bilingualism created a disadvantage for children. Since then, many studies have found that not only were those concerns unfounded but that ...

By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. New hyperscanning research reveals that when bilingual mothers and children play together, their brains align just as strongly in a second language as in their native tongue, ...

International Mother Language Day: Speaking and playing in a second language has no impact on mother-child brain synchrony, a new study has found. Talking in a second language doesn’t affect neural ...