The psycholinguistics of bilingualism - cognitive effects

This video is part of a lecture series on the psycholinguistics of bilingualism, based on a textbook with the same title by François Grosjean and Ping Li. This video presents chapter nine of the book, which was written by Ellen Bialystok and Raluca Barac. The chapter discusses cognitive effects of bilingualism. Whereas bilingualism used to be seen as having a negative impact on cognitive performance, there is now a large body of research that points to cognitive benefits of being bilingual, including height