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Abutalebi, J., & Clahsen, H. (2015). Bilingualism, cognition, and aging. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 18(1), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728914000741

Abutalebi, J., & Green, D. W. (2016). Neuroimaging of language control in bilinguals: neural adaptation and reserve. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19(4), 689-698. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728916000225

Aguirre, S. (2014). Bilingualism and multilingualism. [video]. (21:44 minutes). TEDxNEIU. Available on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr_ekwQyt2k

Anandan, K., & Veezhinathan, M. (2014). Analysis of cognitive load for bilingual subjects. International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, 8(1), 18-35. DOI: 10.4018/ijcini.2014010102

Anderson, J. A., Saleemi, S., & Bialystok, E. (2017). Neuropsychological assessments of cognitive aging in monolingual and bilingual older adults. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 43, 17-27. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2016.08.001

Arredondo, M. M., Kovelman, I., Satterfield, T., Hu, X., Stojanov, L., & Beltz, A. M. (2022). Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children. Brain and Language, 227, 105084. doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105084

Azuh, E., Harwath, D., & Glass, J. (2019). Towards bilingual lexicon discovery from visually grounded speech audio. In Proc. Annual Conference of International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH). DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-1718

Bailey, C., Venta, A., & Langley, H. (2020). The bilingual [dis] advantage. Language and Cognition, 12(2), 225-281. doi:10.1017/langcog.2019.43

Backer, K. C., & Bortfeld, H. (2021). Characterizing bilingual effects on cognition: The search for meaningful individual differences. Brain Sciences, 11(1), 81. ttps://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11010081

Bergelson, E., Amatuni, A., Dailey, S., Koorathota, S., & Tor, S. (2019). Day by day, hour by hour: Naturalistic language input to infants. Developmental Science, 22(1), e12715. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12715

Berken, J. A., Gracco, V. L., & Klein, D. (2017). Early bilingualism, language attainment, and brain development. Neuropsychologia, 98, 220-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.08.031

Berroir, P., Ghazi-Saidi, L., Dash, T., Adrover-Roig, D., Benali, H., & Ansaldo, A. I. (2017). Interference control at the response level: Functional networks reveal higher efficiency in the bilingual brain. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 43, 4-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2016.09.007

Bhatia, T. K. (2018). Bilingualism and multilingualism. In The Palgrave handbook of applied linguistics research methodology (pp. 681-701). Palgrave Macmillan, London.

Bialystok, E. (2015). How bilingualism helps the brain. [video]. (1:03:46). Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sDYx77hCmI

Bialystok, E. (2018). Bilingual education for young children: review of the effects and consequences. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 21(6), 666-679. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2016.1203859

Bialystok, E., Craik, F. I., & Luk, G. (2012). Bilingualism: consequences for mind and brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16(4), 240-250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2012.03.001

Bice, K., Yamasaki, B. L., & Prat, C. S. (2020). Bilingual language experience shapes resting-state brain rhythms. Neurobiology of Language, 1(3), 288-318. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00014

Birdsong, D. (2018). Plasticity, variability and age in second language acquisition and bilingualism. Frontiers in psychology, 9, 81. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00081

Broos, W. P., Duyck, W., & Hartsuiker, R. J. (2019). Monitoring speech production and comprehension: Where is the second-language delay?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(7), 1601-1619. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818807447

Bubbico, G., Chiacchiaretta, P., Parenti, M., Di Marco, M., Panara, V., Sepede, G.,... & Perrucci, M. G. (2019). Effects of second language learning on the plastic aging brain: functional connectivity, cognitive decline, and reorganization. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13, 423. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.00423

Buchweitz, A., & Prat, C. (2013). The bilingual brain: Flexibility and control in the human cortex. Physics of Life Reviews, 10(4), 428-443. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2013.07.020

Byers-Heinlein, K., & Lew-Williams, C. (2013). Bilingualism in the early years: What the science says. LEARNing Landscapes, 7(1), 95–112.

Calabria, M., Costa, A., Green, D. W., & Abutalebi, J. (2018). Neural basis of bilingual language control. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1426(1), 221-235.  DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13879

Cao, F., Kim, S. Y., Liu, Y., & Liu, L. (2014). Similarities and differences in brain activation and functional connectivity in first and second language reading: evidence from Chinese learners of English. Neuropsychologia, 63, 275-284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.09.001

Cargnelutti, E., Tomasino, B., & Fabbro, F. (2019). Language brain representation in bilinguals with different age of appropriation of the second language: A meta-analysis of functional imaging studies. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13, 154. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00154

Cerda, V. R., & Wicha, N. Y. (2023). Arithmetic in the bilingual brain: Language of learning and language experience effects on simple arithmetic in children and adults. Mind, Brain, and Education.

Chen, M., Ma, F., Wu, J., Li, S., Zhang, Z., Fu, Y., ... & Guo, T. (2020). Individual differences in language proficiency shape the neural plasticity of language control in bilingual language production. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 54, 100887. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100887

Claussenius‐Kalman, H., Vaughn, K. A., Archila‐Suerte, P., & Hernandez, A. E. (2020). Age of acquisition impacts the brain differently depending on neuroanatomical metric. Human Brain ;apping, 41(2), 484-502. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24817

Bilingualism and biliteracy. (2020).  In P. Collins, P., & T.T. Ho’s Oxford research encyclopedia of education. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.876

Costa, A. (2020). The bilingual brain: And what it tells us about the science of language. Penguin UK.

Costa, A., & Sebastián-Gallés, N. (2014). How does the bilingual experience sculpt the brain? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 15(5), 336-345. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn3709

Costumero, V., Marin-Marin, L., Calabria, M., Belloch, V., Escudero, J., Baquero, M.,.. & Ávila, C. (2020). A cross-sectional and longitudinal study on the protective effect of bilingualism against dementia using brain atrophy and cognitive measures. Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, 12(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13195-020-0581-1

de Bruin, A., Roelofs, A., Dijkstra, T., & FitzPatrick, I. (2014). Domain-general inhibition areas of the brain are involved in language switching: FMRI evidence from trilingual speakers. NeuroImage, 90, 348-359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.12.049

de Frutos-Lucas, J., López-Sanz, D., Cuesta, P., Bruña, R., de la Fuente, S., Serrano, N.,... & Maestú, F. (2020). Enhancement of posterior brain functional networks in bilingual older adults. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23(2), 387-400. doi:10.1017/S1366728919000178

Declerck, M., Wen, Y., Snell, J., Meade, G., & Grainger, J. (2020). Unified syntax in the bilingual mind. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27(1), 149-154. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01666-x

Del Maschio, N., Sulpizio, S., & Abutalebi, J. (2020). Thinking outside the box: The brain-bilingualism relationship in the light of early neurobiological variability. Brain and Language, 211, 104879. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104879

Del Maschio, N., & Abutalebi, J. (2018). Neurobiology of bilingualism. Bilingual cognition and language: The state of the science across its subfields, (pp. 325-345). In D. Miller, F. Bayram, J. Rothman & L. Serratrice, (Eds.). (2018). Bilingual cognition and language: the state of the science across its subfields (Vol. 54). John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Del Maschio, N., Sulpizio, S., Fedeli, D., Ramanujan, K., Ding, G., Weekes, B. S.,... & Abutalebi, J. (2019). ACC sulcal patterns and their modulation on cognitive control efficiency across lifespan: A neuroanatomical study on bilinguals and monolinguals. Cerebral Cortex, 29(7), 3091-3101. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhy175

DeLuca, V., Segaert, K., Mazaheri, A., & Krott, A. (2020). Understanding bilingual brain function and structure changes? U Bet! A Unified Bilingual Experience Trajectory model. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 56, 100930. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100930

DeLuca, V., Rothman, J., & Pliatsikas, C. (2019). Linguistic immersion and structural effects on the bilingual brain: a longitudinal study. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 22(5), 1160-1175. doi:10.1017/S1366728918000883

DeLuca, V., Rothman, J., Bialystok, E., & Pliatsikas, C. (2019). Redefining bilingualism as a spectrum of experiences that differentially affects brain structure and function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(15), 7565-7574. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1811513116

DeLuca, V., Rothman, J., Bialystok, E., & Pliatsikas, C. (2020). Duration and extent of bilingual experience modulate neurocognitive outcomes. NeuroImage, 204, 116222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116222

Dewaele, J. M., Chen, X., Padilla, A. M., & Lake, J. (2019). The flowering of positive psychology in foreign/second language teaching and acquisition research. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2128. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02128

Diamond, J. (2010). The benefits of multilingualism . Science, 330(6002), 332-333.

Díaz-Lago, M., & Matute, H. (2019). Thinking in a foreign language reduces the causality bias. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(1), 41-51. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818755326

Dornyei, Z. (2020). Innovations and challenges in language learning motivation. Routledge.

Dörnyei, Z. (2019). Psychology and language learning: The past, the present and the future. Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 1(1), 27-41. http://jpll.org/index.php/journal/article/view/dornyei

Dornyei, Z. (2019). Towards a better understanding of the L2 Learning Experience, the Cinderella of the L2 motivational self system. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 9(1), 19-30. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-1254

Duñabeitia, J. A., Dimitropoulou, M., Dowens, M. G., Molinaro, N., & Martin, C. (2016). The electrophysiology of the bilingual brain. In Methods in bilingual reading comprehension research (pp. 265-312). Springer New York.

Durgunoğlu, A. Y., & Xu, H. (2020, April). Basic research on learning, cognition, and emotion and its implications for language teaching. In International Forum of Teaching and Studies,16(2), 39-75. American Scholars Press, Inc..

Felker, E. R., Klockmann, H. E., & De Jong, N. H. (2019). How conceptualizing influences fluency in first and second language speech production. Applied Psycholinguistics, 40(1), 111-136. doi:10.1017/S0142716418000474

Felton, A., Vazquez, D., Ramos-Nunez, A. I., Greene, M. R., Macbeth, A., Hernandez, A. E., & Chiarello, C. (2017). Bilingualism influences structural indices of interhemispheric organization. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 42, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2016.10.004

Festman, J. (2021). Learning and processing multiple languages: The more the easier?. Language Learning.  https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12437

Filippi, R., D’Souza, D., & Bright, P. (2018). A developmental approach to bilingual research: The effects of multi-language experience from early infancy to old age. International Journal of Bilingualism, 1367006917749061. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006917749061

Foy, J. G., & Mann, V. A. (2014). Bilingual children show advantages in nonverbal auditory executive function task. International Journal of Bilingualism, 18(6), 717-729. DOI: 10.1177/1367006912472263

Fromont, L. A., Royle, P., & Steinhauer, K. (2020). Growing Random Forests reveals that exposure and proficiency best account for individual variability in L2 (and L1) brain potentials for syntax and semantics. Brain and Language, 204, 104770. DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104770

Garbin, G., Sanjuan, A., Forn, C., Bustamante, J. C., Rodríguez-Pujadas, A., Belloch, V.,... & Ávila, C. (2010). Bridging language and attention: Brain basis of the impact of bilingualism on cognitive control. NeuroImage, 53(4), 1272-1278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.05.078

García, Li, & Li, Wei. (2016). Translanguaging : Language, bilingualism and education. New York, NY: Routledge.

Garcia-Sierra, A., Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Percaccio, C. R., Conboy, B. T., Romo, H., Klarman, L.,... & Kuhl, P. K. (2011). Bilingual language learning: An ERP study relating early brain responses to speech, language input, and later word production. Journal of Phonetics, 39(4), 546-557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2011.07.002

Gaullaudet University. (2012). Bilingualism and the brain. [video]. (6:42 minutes). Author.

Gold, C. E. (2018). Exploring the resting state neural activity of monolinguals and late and early bilinguals .

Grant, A., Dennis, N. A., & Li, P. (2014). Cognitive control, cognitive reserve, and memory in the aging bilingual brain. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(1401), 10-3389. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01401

Groba, A., De Houwer, A., Obrig, H., & Rossi, S. (2019). Bilingual and monolingual first language acquisition experience differentially shapes children’s property term learning: Evidence from behavioral and neurophysiological measures. Brain Sciences, 9(2), 40. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9020040

Hammer, K. (2019). Bilingual cogito: inner speech in acculturated bilinguals. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 22(5), 576-592. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2017.1285862

Hervais-Adelman, A. G., Moser-Mercer, B., & Golestani, N. (2011). Executive control of language in the bilingual brain: integrating the evidence from neuroimaging to. Bilingualism and Cognitive Control, 29. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00234

Hoff, E., Core, C., Place, S., Rumiche, R., Señor, M., & Parra, M. (2012). Dual language exposure and early bilingual development. Journal of Child Language, 39(01), 1-27. doi: 10.1017/S0305000910000759

Hoff, E., Welsh, S., Place, S., & Ribot, K. (2014). Properties of dual language input that shape bilingual development and properties of environments that shape dual language input. In T. Grüter & J. Paradis, (Eds.). Input and experience in bilingual development (Vol. 13). John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Hosoda, C., Tanaka, K., Nariai, T., Honda, M., & Hanakawa, T. (2013). Dynamic neural network reorganization associated with second language vocabulary acquisition: A multimodal imaging study. The Journal of Neuroscience, 33(34), 13663-13672. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0410-13.2013

IDOR - Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino. (2023, April 3). Cátedra Unesco de Ciência para Educação. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6IMJeJZdW0

Jasinska, K. K., & Petitto, L. A. (2013). How age of bilingual exposure can change the neural systems for language in the developing brain: a functional near infrared spectroscopy investigation of syntactic processing in monolingual and bilingual children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 6, 87-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2013.06.005

Jończyk, R., Boutonnet, B., Musiał, K., Hoemann, K., & Thierry, G. (2016). The bilingual brain turns a blind eye to negative statements in the second language. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-016-0411-x

Jones, Ō. P., Green, D. W., Grogan, A., Pliatsikas, C., Filippopolitis, K., Ali, N.,... & Seghier, M. L. (2011). Where, when and why brain activation differs for bilinguals and monolinguals during picture naming and reading aloud. Cerebral Cortex, bhr161. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhr161

Klein, D., Mok, K., Chen, J. K., & Watkins, K. E. (2014). Age of language learning shapes brain structure: a cortical thickness study of bilingual and monolingual individuals. Brain and Language, 131, 20-24.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2013.05.014

Kogan, B., García-Marco, E., Birba, A., Cortés, C., Melloni, M., Ibáñez, A., & García, A. M. (2020). How words ripple through bilingual hands: Motor-language coupling during L1 and L2 writing. Neuropsychologia, 146, 107563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107563

Kovelman, I., & Marks, R. (2019). Tracking qualitative changes in cognition and brain development through bilingualism. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 49, 255. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2018.06.002

Kovelman, I., Shalinsky, M. H., Berens, M. S., & Petitto, L. A. (2014). Words in the bilingual brain: an fNIRS brain imaging investigation of lexical processing in sign-speech bimodal bilinguals. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00606

Kuhl, P. K., & Ramirez, N. F. (2016). Bilingual language learning in children. Seattle, WA: University of Washington, Institute of Learning.

Kuhl, P. K., Stevenson, J., Corrigan, N. M., van den Bosch, J. J., Can, D. D., & Richards, T. (2016). Neuroimaging of the bilingual brain: Structural brain correlates of listening and speaking in a second language. Brain and Language, 162, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2016.07.004

Kumar, K., Sreeshma, R., & Kalaiah, M. K. (2020). A comparison of temporal processing and spectral processing abilities of monolingual, bilingual and multilingual children. International journal of audiology, 59(7), 501-505. https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2020.1720921

Lantolf, J. P., Poehner, M. E., & Swain, M. (Eds.). (2018). The Routledge handbook of sociocultural theory and second language development. Routledge.

Luk, G., Pliatsikas, C., & Rossi, E. (2020). Brain changes associated with language development and learning: A primer on methodology and applications. System, 89, 102209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2020.102209

Lukasik, K. M., Lehtonen, M., Soveri, A., Waris, O., Jylkkä, J., & Laine, M. (2018). Bilingualism and working memory performance: Evidence from a large-scale online study. PloS one, 13(11), e0205916. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205916

Marian, V., & Shook, A. (2012, September). The cognitive benefits of being bilingual. In Cerebrum: the Dana forum on brain science. Washington, DC: Dana Foundation. PMC3583091

Mariën, P., van Dun, K., Van Dormael, J., Vandenborre, D., Keulen, S., Manto, M.,... & Abutalebi, J. (2017). Cerebellar induced differential polyglot aphasia: a neurolinguistic and fMRI study. Brain and Language, 175, 18-28. . doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2017.09.001

Mårtensson, J., Eriksson, J., Bodammer, N. C., Lindgren, M., Johansson, M., Nyberg, L., & Lövdén, M. (2012). Growth of language-related brain areas after foreign language learning. NeuroImage, 63(1), 240-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.06.043

Massa, E., Köpke, B., & El Yagoubi, R. (2020). Age-related effect on language control and executive control in bilingual and monolingual speakers: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Neuropsychologia, 138, 107336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107336

Mayberry, R. I., & Kluender, R. (2018). Rethinking the critical period for language: New insights into an old question from American Sign Language. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 21(5), 886-905. doi:10.1017/S1366728917000724

McCauley, S. M., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Language learning as language use: A cross-linguistic model of child language development. Psychological Review, 126(1), 1.doi:10.1017/S1366728917000724

Mercure, E., Evans, S., Pirazzoli, L., Goldberg, L., Bowden-Howl, H., Coulson-Thaker, K.,.. & MacSweeney, M. (2019). Language experience impacts brain activation for spoken and signed language in infancy: Insights from unimodal and bimodal bilinguals. Neurobiology of Language, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00001

Mercure, E., Kushnerenko, E., Goldberg, L., BowdenHowl, H., Coulson, K., Johnson, M. H., & MacSweeney, M. (2019). Language experience influences audiovisual speech integration in unimodal and bimodal bilingual infants. Developmental Science, 22(1), e12701. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12701

Monaco, E., Jost, L. B., Gygax, P. M., & Annoni, J. M. (2019). Embodied semantics in a second language: Critical review and clinical implications. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00110

Morgan-Short, K., Steinhauer, K., Sanz, C., & Ullman, M. T. (2012). Explicit and implicit second language training differentially affect the achievement of native-like brain activation patterns. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(4), 933-947. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00119

Moriguchi, Y., & Lertladaluck, K. (2020). Bilingual effects on cognitive shifting and prefrontal activations in young children. International Journal of Bilingualism, 24(4), 729-739. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006919880274

Mouthon, M., Khateb, A., Lazeyras, F., Pegna, A. J., Lee-Jahnke, H., Lehr, C., & Annoni, J. M. (2020). Second-language proficiency modulates the brain language control network in bilingual translators: an event-related fMRI study. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23(2), 251-264. doi:10.1017/S1366728918001141

Nanchen, G., Abutalebi, J., Assal, F., Manchon, M., Démonet, J. F., & Annoni, J. M. (2017). Second language performances in elderly bilinguals and individuals with dementia: The role of L2 immersion. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 43, 49-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2016.09.004

Nayak, S., Salem, H. Z., & Tarullo, A. R. (2020). Neural mechanisms of response-preparation and inhibition in bilingual and monolingual children: Lateralized Readiness Potentials (LRPs) during a nonverbal Stroop task. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 41, 100740. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100740

Nickels, L., Hameau, S., Nair, V. K., Barr, P., & Biedermann, B. (2019). Ageing with bilingualism: benefits and challenges. Speech, Language and Hearing, 22(1), 32-50. DOI: 10.1080/2050571X.2018.1555988

Nicolay, A. C., & Poncelet, M. (2015). Cognitive benefits in children enrolled in an early bilingual immersion school: A follow up study. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 18(4), 789-795.doi:10.1017/S1366728914000868

Ng, E. (2020). Original paper effects of biliteracy in writing and metacognition: Biliterates, bilinguals, and monolinguals. World, 7(3). doi:10.22158/wjssr.v7n3p72

Obler, L. (2015). Bilingual executive control in avoiding language mixing despite brain damage. [video]. (54:40 minutes). Center for Multilingualism and Multicultural Communication at Stony Brook University. Available on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BL8-3FAe-E

Oh, J. S., Au, T. K. F., Jun, S. A., & Lee, R. M. (2019). Childhood language memory in adult heritage language (re) learners. In M. S. Schmid & B Köpke’s The Oxford handbook of language attrition. Oxford University Press.

Pauwels, A. (2013). Politics of multilingualism and language learning: Who benefits? [video]. (1:11:46). YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_fL9LGeW70

Palmer, D. K., Cervantes-Soon, C., & Dornier-Heiman, D. (2020). Bilingualism, biliteracy, biculturalism, and critical consciousness for all. In P.C. Ramírez & C.J. Faltis’ (Eds.). Dual language education in the US: Rethinking pedagogy, curricula, and teacher education to support dual language learning for all. Routledge.

Pérez, A., & Duñabeitia, J. A. (2019). Speech perception in bilingual contexts: Neuropsychological impact of mixing languages at the inter-sentential level. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 51, 258-267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2019.04.002

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