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Université de Fribourg

Impairment of both languages in late bilinguals with dementia of the Alzheimer type

Manchon, Mélanie ; Buetler, Karin ; Colombo, Françoise ; Spierer, Lucas ; Assal, Frédéric ; Annoni, Jean-Marie

In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014, vol. 18, no. 01, p. 90–100

Neuropsychological theories raise the question if in late bilinguals with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT), the second language (L2) may be more impaired than the first (L1). We compared language performance in different tasks of oral comprehension (semantic and syntactic) and production (naming, repetition and fluency) in L1 and L2 in a group of 13 late proficient bilinguals wit DAT...

Université de Fribourg

Second language performances in elderly bilinguals and individuals with dementia: The role of L2 immersion

Nanchen, Giliane ; Abutalebi, Jubin ; Assal, Frédéric ; Manchon, Mélanie ; Démonet, Jean-François ; Annoni, Jean-Marie

In: Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2017, vol. 43, p. 49–58

With the population aging and an increase in the number of senior immigrant citizens in modern societies, public health systems will be increasingly burdened with the need to deal with the care and treatment of bi- or multilingual individuals with cognitive decline and dementia. This raises complex questions such as which language is better preserved in these elderly individuals, particularly...