{"doi":"10.1111/lang.12530","title":"To Bilingualism and Beyond! Modeling Bilingualism Requires Looking Beyond Language: A Commentary on “Computational Modeling of Bilingual Language Learning: Current Models and Future Directions”","abstract":"Language is a symbolic system, and, like other symbolic systems (computer languages, math), it lends itself well to expansion, both within and across systems.Human minds can accommodate multiple symbolic systems simultaneously: They can understand a natural language, perform arithmetic, read musical notes, and perform a variety of tasks in which symbols are used (Marian, 2023).In that sense, the multilingual language system does not possess a unique cognitive architecture that is categorically different, but rather multilingualism is the prototypical state of the human mind.When computational models of multilingualism go beyond existing monolingual language models, they frequently do so by focusing on how to differentiate the different languages, whether to represent them in integrated or separate ways, and how to control their use during input and output.There are multiple solutions for addressing each of these problems, but framing the questions around these issues may be missing the bigger picture, one in which language(s) cannot be separated from other mental phenomena.","journal":"Language Learning","year":2022,"id":290586,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":4,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9489,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":363275,"name":"Viorica Marian","orcid":"0000-0002-8335-1433","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":6,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T00:30:30.639224Z","pmid":"38385119","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}