Section 1: The Brain
- A child’s brain is much more flexible than an adults’.
- A study through the International Journal of Bilingualism found that, “since [early multilinguals] seem to develop distinct phonological representations early in life, the control of phonological recall processes may be less important in these participants,” (Wattendorf, 60).
- In bilingual people, the onset of dementia, for example, was found to be delayed by 4.5 years compared to monolingual people (King, 1).
- Language is integral to brain health