acquisition of majority language skills can be socially beneficial. The theory is tested and confirmed by examining U.S. Census …Common culture and common language facilitate trade between people. Minorities have incentives to become assimilated … and to learn the majority language so that they have a larger pool of potential trading partners. The value of …

immigrant pupils, we focus on language heterogeneity by using a novel measure of the degree of linguistic diversity in the … detailed information on students' language and math scores, their social integration, as well as on sociodemographic and school … linguistic diversity has no adverse effect on students’ language and math skills, but worsens the social integration of immigrant …

Linguistic typology's applications have contributed to the layout of a unique linguistic structure of language as a … cognitive construct of the mind. This relates to the use of typological patterns to form a methodology of multilingual language … morphology, or syntax, among others. Their use would enable young learners to acquire second language(s) parallel to their own …