(a.) Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Trilingual
Definition:
(a.) Containing, or consisting of, three languages; expressed in three languages.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a trilingual translator, Vásquez has rendered works by EM Forster and John Dos Pasos, as well as Victor Hugo, into Spanish.
(2) However, most significant was the third element of what was billed as a "trilingual" production that was communicated through movement and imagery, including a hallucinogenic scene of communal dope-smoking seen first straight on, and then from above, "from the point of view of the moon" with the spaced-out characters lying flat on the stage, so the audience were looking down on their heads.
(3) "I'd also like to point out that raising kids trilingually is maybe one of the latest European problems.
(4) Trilingualism is usually more of a choice, a luxury option associated with intelligence, language talent and education.