“Cognitive and Linguistic Processing in the Bilingual Mind”
This article was written by Ellan Bialystok and Fergus I. M. Craik, and their whole focus
was to bring out the differences, advantages, and similarities in bilinguals and monolinguals.
More specific, is how bilingualism compares to monolingual, and they incorporated results of
studies to help illustrate. The modern era of research in bilingualism occurred after bilingual
children in Montreal, outperformed monolingual, English only speaking in children in many
different tasks. A study from the article showed that in detecting grammatical errors in sentences,
monolingual and bilingual children were both equally up to par. However, when given
semantically anomalous sentences, bilingual children performed this assessment with the most
accuracy.
In terms of executive function and bilingualism, being able to control attention, inhibit
