What's the difference between bilingual and bilingualist?

Bilingual


Definition:

  • (a.) Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary.

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  • (1) Implications are discussed for the psychological assessment of bilinguals as well as for psychotherapy.
  • (2) Key informants concurred that general health settings and multiservice agencies were the most appropriate for reaching Mexican Americans, and that mental health services must include bilingual and bicultural staff members.
  • (3) As she states in her editor’s forward to the first issue, Toor decided to publish a bilingual journal because she intended the magazine to be read by “high school and University students of Spanish … as well as to those who are interested in folklore and the Indian for their own sakes.” She adds: “Moreover, much beauty is lost in translating.” Toor presents herself as a competent cultural translator, should there be any doubt on the part of her readership.
  • (4) Then, in English, a simple statement that has come to define a Japanese summer of public discontent, the likes of which it has not seen in a generation: “This is what democracy looks like!” Amid the trade union and civic group banners were colourful, bilingual placards held aloft by a new generation of activists who have assumed the mantle of mass protest as Japan braces for the biggest shift in its defence posture for 70 years.
  • (5) The authors suggest that monolingual therapists should carefully assess the degree of language independence in bilinguals in order to minimize its impact on therapy.
  • (6) In Study 2, Hindi-English bilinguals were tested in both their languages.
  • (7) Specialized laboratories and clinics can be served by expert consultants, visiting professors, bilingual and well-trained clinicians, nurses, laboratory technologists, computer operators, and related allied health personnel.
  • (8) Bilateral presentation of bilingual words produced greatest interference, when compared with bilateral presentation of unilingual words, or bilateral presentation of words and numbers.
  • (9) The Rosenberg Self-esteem scale was translated into Persian and 12 Iranian bilingual judges confirmed the soundness of translation.
  • (10) These results are important in understanding the deleterious effect that stressful situations may have on linguistic functioning and cognition in bilinguals.
  • (11) And that's why bilingual children can say that "Apples grow on noses" is said the right way: they are accustomed to resolving the conflict between form and meaning.
  • (12) Its colourful aesthetic forged in the bilingual city of Montreal has proved easy to export.
  • (13) The English and Chinese versions of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) were administered to a sample of 72 bilingual respondents for the evaluation of version equivalence by a series of item analyses, reliability analyses and factor analyses.
  • (14) My view is that late-life language learning is probably beneficial, not because of bilingualism but because learning a language is a stimulating mental activity and a good way to exercise your brain.
  • (15) Discrimination and identification tests of synthetic (d-t) and (i-I) continua and speech production tests revealed that the bilinguals' discrimination and production of (d) and (t) and their production of (I) did not differ significantly from the monolinguals'.
  • (16) Canadian studies suggest that Alzheimer’s disease and the onset of dementia are diagnosed later for bilinguals than for monolinguals, meaning that knowing a second language can help us to stay cognitively healthy well into our later years.
  • (17) We did a study at the Baycrest geriatric centre in Toronto in which we identified 200 clear cases of Alzheimer's disease and looked at the patients' backgrounds to see if they were mono- or bilingual.
  • (18) Unless they are aware of these movements, clinicians evaluating bilingual patients may interpret an increase in encoding-related motor activity as reflecting psychopathology.
  • (19) In Experiment 1, monolingual English listeners identified bilinguals' voices much better when they spoke English than when they spoke German.
  • (20) The strategies displayed by these patients fall well within the range observed among bilingual normals.

Bilingualist


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