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4.8 Main issues

- Cognitive aspects:
-- Intelligence:
--- Until the 1960s: bilinguality has negative influence on intelligence
--- Peal und Lambert (1962): positive influence
--- Bialystok (2009): slower lexicon access, faster inhibition and selection
--- Bialystok and Barac (2013): delays cognitive aging and dementia
-- Theory of mind:
--- Goetz (2003); Kovács (2009): bilingual advantage in false-belief tasks
-- Metalinguistic awareness:
--- Earlier distinction between word and meaning
--- Better analytical abilities:
---- Word recognition
---- Different types of (in)correctness: Apples grow on noses