Book: Bilingualism

[McGinnis, Scott]

One Mind, Two Languages: Bilingual Language Processing
Series Title: Explaining Linguistics

Publication Year: 2001

Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
           http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/

Book URL: http://www.blackwellpub.com/asp/book.asp?ref=0631220984


Editor: Janet  Nicol


Paperback: ISBN: 0631220984, Pages: 240, Price: $33.95
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Abstract:

One Mind, Two Languages surveys current research in language processing
-from both linguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives- in individuals
who speak more than one language. Such research bears on a broad range
of
questions relating to whether language can shape thought and what it
means
to be proficient in a language, as well as formal theories of
linguistics
and language processing.


The volume focuses on how the multi-language user represents and
processes linguistic information. Chapters include an overview of
methodological issues in bilingual research, new empirical research,
and extensive summaries of relevant past work.

This is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in
state-of-the-art research on the status of language processing in
bilinguals.

Contents:
        Notes on Contributors.
         Preface.
         1. The Bilingual's Language Modes: Franois Grosjean
         (Neuchatel University).
         2. The Voicing Contrast in English and Spanish: The
         Relationship between Perception and Production: Mary L.
         Zampini and Kerry P. Green (both at University of Arizona).
         3. The Development of Conceptual Representation for Words in
         a Second Language: Judith F. Kroll and Natasha Tokowicz (both
         at Pennsylvania State University).
         4. The Nature of the Bilingual Lexicon: Experiments with the
         Masked Priming Paradigm: Kenneth I. Forster (University of
         Arizona) and Nan Jiang (Auburn University).
         5. Explaining Aspects of Codeswitching and Their Implications:
         Carol Myers-Scotton (University of South Carolina) and Janice
         L. Jake (Midlands Technical College).
         6. Production of Verb Agreement in Monolingual, Bilingual and
         Second-Language Speakers: Janet L. Nicol, Matthew Teller and
         Delia Greth all University of Arizona).
         7. A Theory of Syntactic Interference in the Bilingual:
Montserat
         Sanz (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies) and Thomas G.
         Bever (University of Arizona).
         8. Sentence Parsing in Fluent Spanish-English Bilinguals: Paola
         E. Dussias (University of Illinois).
         9. Print as a Primary Source of English for Deaf Learners:
         Samuel J. Supalla (University of Arizona), Tina R. Wix and
         Cecile Mckee (University of Arizona).
         References.
         Index.

Lingfield(s): Applied Linguistics, Psycholinguistics