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    Université de Fribourg

    The relationship between linguistic ability, multilingualism, and dementia

    van den Noort, Maurits ; Vermeire, Katrien ; Staudte, Heike ; Perriard, Benoît ; Bosch, Peggy ; Lim, Sabina

    In: Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 2019, vol. 72, no. 4, p. 1041–1044

    In a recent article of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Hack et al. (2019) argue that linguistic ability rather than multilingualism is a significant predictor of dementia. In their longitudinal study, they investigated 325 religious sisters who were older than 75 years of age. Self-reports were used in order to determine multilingualism. They found that speaking two or three languages...