32.1381, Books: The Adaptive Bilingual Mind: Adamou

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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 21:38:49
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Adaptive Bilingual Mind: Adamou

 


Title: The Adaptive Bilingual Mind 
Subtitle: Insights from Endangered Languages 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/multilingualism/adaptive-bilingual-mind-insights-endangered-languages?format=HB 


Author: Evangelia Adamou

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108839518 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108839518 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108839518 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

At present, much of the research on bilingual cognition focuses on late second
language learners of a small number of languages. In this fascinating book,
Evangelia Adamou widens the net by integrating advances in the field of
bilingualism with the study of endangered languages. Drawing on recent studies
from Europe and Latin America, she demonstrates that experimental
psycholinguistic methods can be successfully applied outside the lab and,
conversely, how data from these understudied populations provide new insights
into the adaptive capacities of the bilingual mind. Adamou shows how
bilinguals manage competing conceptualizations of time and space, how their
grammars and language mixing patterns adapt to cognitive constraints such as
the need for simplification, and how language processing concurrently adapts
to their complex bilingual experience. Combining statistical analyses with
detailed linguistic and ethnographic information, this essential book will
appeal to scholars of bilingualism, cognitive sciences, language endangerment,
and language contact.
 



Preface; Introduction and methods; 1. Theoretical background; 2. Methods:
disentangling language contact, bilingualism, and attrition; 3. The structure
of this book; Part I. Do Bilinguals Maintain Language-specific
Conceptualizations: 4. State of the art; 5. Space; 6. Time; Part II. Are
Bilinguals Confronted with High Cognitive Costs: 7. State of the art; 8.
Cognitive costs in atypical forms of codeswitching; 9. Reduction of
alternative in language; Part III. Conclusions: 10. General discussion and
conclusions; Glossary; Appendix.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science


Written In: English  (eng)

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