Dialect competence appears to have a positive effect on language skills. This was the finding of a study by an interdisciplinary research team at Philipps University of Marburg, published in the journal "Nature: Scientific Reports." The study shows that acquiring a dialect alongside the standard language leads to a comparable development of language-processing brain regions as bilingualism. The study compared 26 dialect-competent individuals wit…
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Dialect competence appears to have a positive effect on language skills. This was the finding of a study by an interdisciplinary research team at Philipps University of Marburg, published in the journal "Nature: Scientific Reports." The study shows that acquiring a dialect alongside the standard language leads to a comparable development of language-processing brain regions as bilingualism. The study compared 26 dialect-competent individuals wit…