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Linguistic relativity and bilingualism

Athanasopoulos, Panos LU and Aveledo, Fraibet (2012) p.236-255
Abstract
If our native language affects our thinking, can learning a new language restructure our mental representations of reality and the world? The current chapter will attempt to answer that question, drawing on recent empirical evidence from a variety of research domains. We consider a range of variables that may modulate bilingual cognition and conceptualization, and we discuss the ways in which the ongoing investigation of the bilingual mind from a relativistic perspective has significantly added to our knowledge of how bilinguals mentally represent categories in their mind.
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Memory, language, and bilingualism : Theoretical and Applied Approaches - Theoretical and Applied Approaches
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Altarriba, Jeanette and Isurin, Ludmila
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236 - 255
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Cambridge University Press
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9781107419865
9781139035279
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10.1017/CBO9781139035279.010
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English
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  publisher    = {{Cambridge University Press}},
  title        = {{Linguistic relativity and bilingualism}},
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