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The Cognitive Benefits of Learning Native Language and Bilingualism in a Minority Group

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  • Genc Struga

    (Department of Neuroscience, University Hospital Mother Teresa, Albania)

  • Thomas Bak

    (University of Edinburgh, UK)

  • EnverRoshi

    (Chief of Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Albania)

  • Stavros Baloyannis

    (Director Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s disease, Professor Emeritus Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

Abstract

Studying the Arvanites a bilingual population in Greece that speak Arvanitika a dialect of Albanian language still spoken in vast areas of Greece is classified as minority language and in risk of extinction as endangered. The study aim to show the possible benefit in cognitive and cognitive related dysfunction of native speakers of Arvanitika from bilingualism [1].

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  • Genc Struga & Thomas Bak & EnverRoshi & Stavros Baloyannis, 2018. "The Cognitive Benefits of Learning Native Language and Bilingualism in a Minority Group," Open Access Journal of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 7(5), pages 93-94, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:joajnn:v:7:y:2018:i:5:p:93-94
    DOI: 10.19080/OAJNN.2018.07.555722
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    1. Genc Struga & Thomas Bak, 2019. "The Cognitive Benefits of Learning Native Language," Open Access Journal of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 10(3), pages 52-55, March.

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