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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychologia. 2009 Dec 29;48(5):1356–1366. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.12.038

Table 4. Proportion of either-language benefit in cognitively healthy bilinguals who rated themselves as balanceda or unbalancedb bilinguals by preferred language of testing.

Self-Rated Balanced Bilinguals
n min max mean SD
English-dominant 7 0.00 0.08 0.03 0.03
Spanish-dominant 5 0.00 0.10 0.07 0.04
Self-Rated Unbalanced Bilinguals
n min max mean SD
English-dominant 15 0.00 0.03 0.01 0.01
Spanish-dominant 14 0.00 0.10 0.03 0.03
a

Balanced Bilinguals = Rated ability to speak Spanish and English as the same or up to a difference of 1 between languages on 1-7 scale

b

Unbalanced = Rated ability to speak Spanish and English as at least 2 or up to difference of 6 on a 1-7 scale