摘要：Linguistically rich country like India has children speaking multiple languages. This is more prevalently observed in the urban Indian metropolitans. Though bilinguals have cognitive gains, trilingual children and their cognitive gains need to be evaluated. A sample of 55 children aged 6 to 8 years, with 27 in bilingual and 28 in trilingual groups, was recruited through purposive non-probability sampling technique from parental reports of their functional linguistic use. They were assessed for background measures of developmental level, intellectual functioning, and socioeconomic status. Working memory tasks comprising of verbal and visuospatial components were conducted on the sample. Results depicted a significant difference between the groups with bilingual children outperforming the trilingual children. Evidence concordant and discordant to these findings are discussed. Recommendations are provided to implore further studies for multilingual homes and formal education set-ups.
关键词：Working memory;Children;Cognitive;Multilingual;Urban High Socioeconomic families;Language;Typical
