The U.K. Daily Mail – Mark Prigg
“Speaking two languages really could give you a split personality, researchers have found. They say that many speakers have entirely different personalities in each of the languages they speak. Previously research has even found those who are bilingual even see colours differently. ‘Rather than ask whether speakers of different languages have different minds, he says, ‘we ask, Can two different minds exist within one person?’ said psycholinguist Panos Athanasopoulos of Lancaster University. ‘The extent to which language affects this process has been the focus of a long-standing debate: Do different languages cause their speakers to behave differently?,’ the team wrote. ‘Here, we show that fluent German-English bilinguals categorize motion events according to the grammatical constraints of the language in which they operate. Athanasopoulos and colleagues were interested in a particular difference in how English and German speakers treat events.”(more)