"Dr Kyriakos Antoniou and Dr Napoleon Katsos from the University of Cambridge studied
the cognitive performance of children who grew up speaking both Cypriot Greek and
Standard Modern Greek – two varieties of Greek which are closely related but differ
from each other on all levels of language analysis (vocabulary, pronunciation and
grammar).
The study showed that multilingual and bi-dialectal children exhibited an advantage
over monolingual children that was evident in composite cognitive processes including
memory, attention and cognitive flexibility; suggesting that advantages previously
reported for multilingual children could be shared by children speaking any two or
more dialects."
From an online piece here: https://goo.gl/Qh1ryr
...which was based on a journal article here:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.12.002
Dave
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Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University | www.shu.ac.uk
Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD | www.wiserd.ac.uk
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