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Bialystok, Ellen – Child Development, 1999
Investigated in preschoolers whether the bilingual advantage in cognitive control or selective attention could be found in a nonverbal task, the dimensional change card sort, requiring minimal demands for analysis or representation. Found that bilingual children were more advanced than monolinguals in solving problems requiring high levels of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Language Processing

Bialystok, Ellen – Child Development, 1986
Investigates the metalinguistic ability of monolingual or bilingual children between five and nine years of age on two language tasks (grammaticality judgment and correction). (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingualism, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development