Handbook of Bilingualism

Psycholinguistic approaches

Edited by Judith F. Kroll and Annette M. B. De Groot

OUP USA

2pp colour plates, numerous line figures and tables | 252x178mm

978-0-19-515177-0 | Hardback | 23 June 2005

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Essential reading for anyone who wishes to better understand the cognitive basis of bilingualism and the logic of experimental and formal approaches to language science

Until recently, cognitive science virtually ignored the fact that most people of the world are bilingual. During the past ten years this situation has changed markedly. There is now an appreciation that learning and using more than one language is the more natural circumstance of cognition. As a result, there is a wealth of new research on second-language learning and bilingualism that provides not only crucial evidence for the universality of cognitive principles, but also an important tool for revealing constraints within the cognitive architecture.

In this volume, Judith Kroll and Annette de Groot have brought together the scientists at the forefront of research on second-language learning and bilingualism to present chapters that, rather than focusing simply on their own research, provide the first comprehensive overviews of this emerging field. Bilingualism provides a lens through which each of the central questions about language and cognition can be viewed. The five sections of this book focus on different facets of those questions: How is language acquired when infants are exposed to multiple-language input from birth, and how is it acquired when adults are required to learn a second language after early childhood? How do adult bilinguals comprehend and produce words and sentences when their two languages are potentially always active and in competition with one another? What are the neural mechanisms that underlie proficient bilingualism? What are the general consequences of bilingualism for cognition and for language and thought? This handbook will be essential reading for cognitive psychologists, linguists, applied linguists, and educators who wish to better understand the cognitive basis of bilingualism and the logic of experimental and formal approaches to language science.

Readership: Psychologists, linguistics scholars, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, ESL scholars

Part 1: Acquisition
1: The learning of foreign language vocabulary
Syntax
2: Early bilingual acquisition: Focus on morphosyntax and the separate development hypothesis
3: A unified model of language development
4: Phonology and bilingualism
Biological bases
5: What does the critical period really mean?
6: Interpreting age effects in second language acquisition
7: Processing constraints on L1 transfer
8: Models of monolingual and bilingual language acquisiton
Part 2: Comprehension
9: Bilingual visual word recognition and lexical access
10: Computational models of bilingual comprehension
11: The representation of cognate and noncognate words in bilingual memory: Can cognate status be characterized as a special kind of morphological relation?
12: Bilingual semantic and conceptual representation
13: Ambiguities and anomalies: What can eye-movements and event-related potentials reveal about second language sentence processing
Part 3: Production and Control
14: Selection processes in monolingual and bilingual lexical access
15: Lexical access in bilingual production
16: Supporting a differential access hypothesis: Codeswitching and other contact data
17: Language selection in bilinguals: Mechanisms and processes
18: Automatically in bilingualism and second language learning
19: Being and becoming bilingual: Individual differences and consequences for language production
Part 4: Aspects and Implications of Bilingualism
Cognitive consequences
20: Consequences of bilingualism for cognitive development
21: Bilingualism and thought
22: Simultaneous interpreting: A cognitive perspective
Cognitive neuroscience approaches
23: Clearing the cobwebs from the study of the bilingual brain: Converging evidence from laterality and electrophysiological research
24: What can functional neuroimaging tell us about the bilingual brain?
25: The neurocognition of recovery patterns in bilingual aphasics
26: Models of bilingual representation and processing: Looking back and to the future

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