PS102 Chapter 8: PS102- chap. 8- language & thought
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2) that as adults, the enhanced executive control characteristics of bilinguals should afford them advantages in cognitive tasks implicating executive processing: since executive process are one of the first cognitive abilities to decline with age, bilinguals, because of their continued reliance on executive processes for dealing with their two languages, should show delayed deline relative to monolingual adults. Interactionist theories come in 3 flavors: cognitive theories assert that language development is simply an imporant aspect of more general cognitive development which depends on both maturation & experience, social communication theories emphasize the functional value of interpersonal communication & the social context in which language evolves, emergentist theories argue that the neural circuits supporting language are not prewired but emerge gradually in response to language learning experiences, these theories tend to assume tat incremental changes in connectionist networks underlie children"s gradual acquisition of various language skills.
