الفهرس 
Basic language processing in monolingualsيوجد فقط 14 صفحة متاحة للعرض العام
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المستخلص
Being bilingual supports children in maintaining strong ties with their family,
culture and community. All of these are key parts of a child‟s developing identity.
Bilingual children are also able to make new friends and create strong relationships
using their second language. It is important skill in our increasingly diverse
society. Babies raised in bilingual households show better self-control which is a
key indicator for school success. Learning more than one language is an asset to
individuals, families and our entire society.
Through this essay we reviewed how the structure-function relationship
(anatomical/physiological basics) of language processing in bilinguals differs than
that of monolinguals. Also, we tried to investigate the factors that may affect this
processing. Finally we discussed different implications of bilingualism processing
in different cognitive and meta-linguistic fields.
Brain adaptation to a changing environment, known as plasticity, is altered by
bilingualism both in the gray matter volumes and the microstructure of whitematter
pathways. The structure-function relation of the brain has been investigated
in a number of bilingualism studies. These included functional fMRI, PPI analysis,
MEG, fNIRS, ESM … etc. For most of these functional anatomical and
pysiological studies it was showed that language processing in bilingualism have
minor but significantly important anatomical differences than monolinguals.
The structural changes are mostly described as sub-networks more connected
by WM tracts in bilinguals than in monolinguals; confirming WM brain plasticity.