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Linguistic Relativity and Multilingualism

Athanasopoulos, Panos LU (2025)
Abstract
The current entry summarizes research bringing together the linguistic relativity hypothesis (the idea that language affects thought, in predictable ways) and the field of bi/multilingualism, broadly conceived to include learning, knowledge, and use of more than one language. After a brief historical introduction, the entry covers empirical research conducted in five main domains of enquiry, namely grammatical number and object classification, color categorization, grammatical gender and object inferences, time perception, and motion event cognition.
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The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics
editor
Chapelle, Carol A.
pages
7 pages
publisher
Wiley
ISBN
9781405194730
9781405198431
DOI
10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0722.pub2
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English
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