The amazing baby brain says ‘pas de lème’ with bilingualism
The Conversation, 29 July 2019
People often say that babies are like little sponges — with their ability to soak up language quickly and easily.
Yet much of the early research on language acquisition has focused on young infants learning only one language. This research was guided by an implicit assumption that learning one language is the usual and optimal way to learn to talk.
This idea...
Why are so many languages spoken in some places and so few in others?
The Conversation, 15 août 2019
People across the world describe their thoughts and emotions, share experiences and spread ideas through the use of thousands of distinct languages. These languages form a fundamental part of our humanity. They determine whom we communicate with and how we express ourselves.
Despite continually mapping the distribution of languages across the world, scientists...
Google Earth lança projeto que celebra idiomas indígenas
Publicado em 15/08/2019
Conheça mais de 50 línguas nativas praticamente desconhecidas
A partir desta sexta-feira (09), o Google Earth apresenta o projeto Celebração das Línguas Indígenas para todos os seus usuários. Quem acessa o recurso tem a oportunidade de conhecer mais de 50 idiomas indígenas que, muitas vezes, nunca haviam sido escutados por alguém que não...
Selon ses traductions, Yuval Noah Harari s'arrange avec la post-vérité
Actualitté, 25 juillet 2019
Dans son livre 21 Leçons pour le XXIe siècle, grand succès international, Yuval Noah Harari aborde la question de la « post-vérité », un concept qui recouvre le fait et toutes ses nuances d'interprétations dans un monde où les infox se multiplient et se diffusent rapidement. Ironie du sort, le livre s'est autocensuré à l'occasion de sa...
Book: Language Dominance in Bilinguals - Issues of Measurement and Operationalization
Carmen Silva-Corvalán, University of Southern California
Jeanine Treffers-Daller, University of Reading
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Cambridge University Press, May 2019, ISBN: 9781108718745
With contributions from leading scholars of bilingualism, Language Dominance in Bilinguals is the first publication to survey different approaches to language dominance, along with suggested avenues for further...
Vantaggi del plurilinguismo: sono i bimbi ladini i migliori in competenza e creatività
La voce di Bolzano, 8 agosto 2019
Un’educazione plurilingue, sin dalla più tenera età, ha effetti positivi su tutti gli aspetti cognitivi dei bambini, e migliora le competenze non solo in campo linguistico ma in tutto ciò che ha a che fare con la creatività.
E’ questo il risultato che emerge dal progetto di ricerca “MELA – Mehrsprachig Ladinisch“, presentato questa mattina (7...
Une langue pour papa, une langue pour maman (La Croix)
Par Sylvie Blanchet Publié le 7 août 2019 à 10h30
Il n’y a, à mes yeux, pas grand-chose de plus passionnant que de voir un tout petit s’emparer du langage … Quelle immense découverte : on peut se faire comprendre, on peut solliciter de l’aide, on peut donner son avis, bref on entre de plain-pied dans ce que l’espèce humaine a de plus spécifique !
Quelle immense...
Languages & Creativity: Identity and multilingualism in South Tyrol
by Jamie Green, July 20th 2019
It’s hard to think of two people with more different backgrounds than Sebastiano Vassalli and Alexander Langer. The former was an Italian-speaking novelist from northern Italy who had yet to visit South Tyrol before he travelled to the province to research Sangue e suolo in the mid-1980s. The latter was a political campaigner who, although he spoke...
Glotofobia: da discriminação linguística ao racismo pelo sotaque
“Na nossa sociedade a linguagem é um instrumento de dominação e de discriminação poderoso e desconhecido. Impor a sua língua como a única aceitável, estimável, razoável e menosprezar, desqualificar, rejeitar uma pessoa pela sua maneira de falar, o seu sotaque ou o seu vocabulário é tão ilegítimo como rejeitá-la pela sua religião, a cor da sua pele ou a sua orientação sexual...
New developments in store for online multilingualism, EU’s Navracsics says
Source: Euractiv.com, 2 July 2019
The diversity of European languages in use online could be improved in the near future, the EU’s Commissioner for Education and Culture, Tibor Navracsics told EURACTIV amid criticism that progress with online multilingualism in Europe has been “frustratingly slow”.
While the EU has done much to bolster the bloc’s availability of languages online,...