Moving From Bilingual Traits to States: Understanding Cognition and Language Processing Through Moment-to-Moment Variation.

Differences in linguistic diversity in the environment may also impact how monolinguals process or learn a new language: Monolinguals surrounded by a greater diversity of other languages (irrespective of their knowledge of those languages) showed marginally significant late anterior positivity ERP to novel words versus nonwords in a newly learned language that monolinguals from a more homogenous community did not demonstrate ( Bice & Kroll, 2019 ).

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