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The report recommends that the bank hires more bilingual staff.
We estimate that half the world's population is bilingual.
Here in Montreal we are in a truly bilingual area.
She is the editor of the bilingual anthology "The Voices of Hope/Las Voces de la Esperanza".
Bilingual education includes a variety of strategies for using a student's native language in addition to English.
They wanted to launch a bilingual newspaper.

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bilingual
noun[ C ]
uk /baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/ us /baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
a person who speaks two languages equally well:
The phone lines will be staffed by bilinguals.
Studies show that bilinguals are better at problem-solving.
These versatile bilinguals are highly significant for the future of the English language.
We shall study two groups of bilingual children in the UK: Welsh-English bilinguals in Gwynedd and Punjabi bilinguals in Lancashire.
It's interesting to explore whether or not emotion is coded differently in a bilingual's two languages.

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bilingual | American Dictionary

bilingual
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/bɑɪˈlɪŋ·ɡwəl, -ɡjə·wəl/
able to speak or using two languages:
Kate is bilingual.
a bilingual dictionary

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Despite the fundamental role phonetic representations play in language acquisition, there has been very little research on their development in a bilingual context.
The relevance of the findings for cross-linguistic interaction in bilingual phonetic/phonological development is discussed.
With bilingual pupils, the results of this quasimedical use of intelligence tests are exceedingly harmful.
Or, adopting a distributed point of view, conceptual representations of verbs may share fewer meaning elements in a bilingual's memory than those of nouns.
Do bilinguals activate phonological representations in one or both of their languages when naming words?
Bilingual language switching in naming: asymmetrical costs of language selection.
Language switching in bilinguals as a function of stimulus and response uncertainty.
The study was designed to assess the effects of two-way bilingual education on students' academic development.
Bilinguals produced both semantic and syntactic transfers in their two languages, suggesting that semantic and syntactic representations influence each other across languages during bilingual production.
A general theory of language acquisition must ultimately accommodate the facts about bilingual/multilingual acquisition.
These models focus on two issues (activation and competition for activation) that are also central to understanding bilingual language production.
How can one measure the extent of a person's bilingual proficiency?
This is similar to the ability that bilingual children have shown in attributing meaning to oral forms.
Some data suggest that the type of script has an effect on the oral reading performance of patients with bilingual aphasia.
Bilingual acquisition occurs in different sociocultural contexts, and it entails different language combinations and modalities (signed and oral).
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