14.1210, Books: Multilingualism/Socioling: Fernandez

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Date:  Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:16:04 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Bilingual Sentence Processing: Fernandez

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Date:  Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:16:04 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Bilingual Sentence Processing: Fernandez

Title: Bilingual Sentence Processing
Subtitle: Relative clause attachment in English and Spanish
Series Title: Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 29

Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl

Book URL:
http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LALD_29

Availability: Available

Author: Eva M. Fernández, Queens College, City University of New York

Hardback: ISBN: 1588113450, Pages: xx, 294 pp., Price: USD 98.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027224986, Pages: xx, 294 pp., Price: EUR 98.00

Abstract:

The cross-linguistic differences documented in studies of relative
clause attachment offer an invaluable opportunity to examine a
particular aspect of bilingual sentence processing: Do bilinguals
process their two languages as if they were monolingual speakers of
each? This volume provides a review of existing research on relative
clause attachment, showing that speakers of languages like English
attach relative clauses differently than do speakers of languages like
Spanish. FernÃ¡ndez reports the findings of an investigation with
monolinguals and bilinguals, tested using speeded ("on-line") and
unspeeded ("off-line") methodology, with materials in both English and
Spanish. The experiments reveal similarities across the groups when
the procedure is speeded, but differences with unspeeded
questionnaires: The monolinguals replicate the standard
cross-linguistic differences, while bilinguals have
language-independent preferences determined by language dominance ---
bilinguals process stimuli in either of their languages according to
the general preferences of monolinguals of their dominant language.

Table of contents

List of tables  ix
List of figures  xiii
List of appendixes  xv
Abstract  xvii
Foreword  xix
Introduction  1-4
Cross-linguistic differences in sentence processing: The relative
 clause attachment ambiguity 5-66
Language dependency and bilingual sentence processing  67-96
Materials evaluation: Quality control for experimental sentences
 97-124
Monolingual experimental data on relative clause attachment
 preferences 125-159
Bilingual experimental data on relative clause attachment preferences
 161-209
Conclusions  211-220
Appendixes  221-271
References  273-284
Author index  285-288
Subject index  289-292

Lingfield(s):   Bi- & Multilingualism (Sociolinguistics)
		Language Acquisition
		Sociolinguistics

Written In: English (Language Code: English)

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