q. how did you begin studying bilingualism?a. you know, i didn’t start trying to find out whether bilingualism was bad or good. i did mydoctorate in psychology: on how children acquire language. when i finished graduate school,in 1976, there was a job shortage in canada for ph.d.’s. the only position i found was with aresearch project studying second language acquisition in school children. it wasn’t my area.but it was close enough.as a psychologist, i brought neuroscience questions to the study, like “how does theacquisition of a second language change thought?” it was these types of questions thatnaturally led to the bilingualism research. the way research works is, it takes you down a road.you then follow that road.