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Since language is not a thing-in-itself nor an end-in-itself, the mere possession of two languages in no sense ensures any intellectual advantage over the monoglot, nor does it necessarily involve any other advantage of any kind. The value, like the life, of a language depends exclusively on the use made of it.
—O’Doherty (1958: 284)
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Jansen, S., Higuera del Moral, S., Barzen, J.S., Reimann, P., Opolka, M. (2021). Introduction. In: Demystifying Bilingualism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87063-8_1
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