США: Эксперимент с билингвами доказал их преимущество перед монолингвами PDF Печать E-mail
Интересные эксперименты с машинками и бананами, доказывающие более высокий уровень коммуникативной компетенции (социо-составляющей) у билингвов.
Interestingly, we also found that children who were effectively monolingual yet regularly exposed to another language — for example, those who had grandparents who spoke another language — were just as talented as the bilingual children at this task. It seems that being raised in an environment in which multiple languages are spoken, rather than being bilingual per se, is the driving factor.
These “exposure” children performed like monolinguals on the cognitive task, but like bilinguals on the communication task. Something other than cognitive skills — something more “social” — must explain their facility in adopting another’s perspective.