bi Bob Fairnie
Aboot fower year syne, Eurolang, the wabsite o the European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages, reportit aboot twa studies that spelt guid news for bilingual fowk but no sae guid news for monolinguals. The results fae the studies that leukit intae memory an senility in 2004 an dementia in 2006, shawed a haud back in the oncome o senility an dementia in bilinguals.
The first study, furthset in 2004 bi Ellen Bailystock o York Univairsity in Toronto, Canada, discovert that symptoms o senility averaged oot at 71.4 year auld in monolingual fowk, agin 75.5 for thaim that wis bilingual. The exemplar wis makit up fae English monolinguals an French-English bilinguals.