Children may struggle to recall basic words in their first language within a couple of months of stopping using it.
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The way questions on language were posed call the results into question.
It’s been in existence since the 1500s but the Kaaps language, synonymous with Cape Town, has never had a dictionary until now.
Experts disagree on what makes someone truly bilingual, and how the human brain accesses multiple languages.
One of South Africa’s finest hip-hop crews message was that you couldn’t box identities forged through multilingual living in the ghettos.
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Professor of Linguistics, University of York
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, University of the Western Cape
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Maître de conférences HDR en psychologie cognitive, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC)
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University of Cape Town
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Postdoctoral Innovation Associate (Human Geography), University of Leicester
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Postgraduate Researcher in Psycholinguistics, University of York
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Senior Practitioner Fellow in the Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
