Does multilingualism really protect against accelerated ageing? Critical comments on Amoruso et al. (2025)
BCU-LLM
- Vanhove, Jan ORCID University of Fribourg
- 2026
Published in:
- Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. - Informa UK Limited. - 2026, p. 1-15
English
In a much-publicised large-scale study, Amoruso et al.\ (2025) purport to have found evidence that multilingualism protects against accelerated ageing. However, several crucial claims made in their article do not stand up to scrutiny whereas others are easily misunderstood. Amoruso et al.'s study should not inform either research or policy.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département de plurilinguisme et didactique des langues étrangères
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Language, linguistics
- License
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License undefined
- Open access status
- green
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1080/01434632.2026.2626158
- ISSN 0143-4632
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/334974
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