Multilingual Creative Cognition Center: MCCC
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MCCC conducts empirical and educational research of the relationship between multilingualism and creativity.
During the past few decades, research in the area of multilingual cognitive and linguistic development has made tremendous progress and provided evidence supporting the notion that speaking more than one language extends, rather than diminishes, an individual’s cognitive capacities. There is a strong argument in the literature that multilingual development may result in establishing specific archi
27/02/2020
Using more than one language matters now more than ever Conflict is all too common when intolerant eavesdroppers hear foreign languages being spoken, says Marek Kohn. But multilingualism is here to stay
06/05/2019
Real Men Don't Learn Other Languages New research finds many men view learning a second language as a feminine pursuit.
04/04/2019
Funding call for doctoral students | Creative Multilingualism Creative Multilingualism is an exciting multidisciplinary project funded by the AHRC under its Open World Research Initiative (OWRI). Seven interlocking research strands investigate the creative dimension of languages – extending from cognition and production through to performance, texts and tran...
27/03/2019
6 Multilingual Benefits That You Only Get If You Speak Another Language "If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world."
27/02/2019
Artificial Intelligence in the World of Languages | Creative Multilingualism Save the date for an upcoming workshop at the University of Pittsburgh in partnership with Joint National Committee for Languages (US) on Artificial Intelligence in the World of Languages.
23/02/2019
Language has become a tool for social exclusion Vulnerable groups are being excluded from society due to their lack of ability to speak national languages.
15/02/2019
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14/07/2018
We stigmatize accents, but language belongs to everyone Scholar and novelist Hernan Diaz was born in Argentina, grew up in Sweden, and spent most of his life in the United States. To some degree, he says, he has a foreign accent in every language he speaks. Diaz shares his humble opinion on accent discrimination and “the hospitality at the heart of eve...
14/07/2018
The Surprising Power of Language over Memory and Choice By Dr. Viorica Marian and Dr. Sayuri Hayakawa
24/04/2018
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02086/full
The Effect of Forced Language Switching during Divergent Thinking: A Study on Bilinguals’ Originality of Ideas In the present study we experimentally manipulated language switching among bilinguals who indicated to be more or less habitual language switchers in daily life. Our aim was to investigate the impact of forced language switching on originality of produced ideas during divergent thinking, conditiona...
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