The Multilingual Lexicon

by Cenoz, Jasone; Hufeisen, Britta; Jessner, Ulrike

• ISBN13: 9781402015434
• ISBN10: 1402015437
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This volume is a response both to the increasing interest in multilingual phenomena and lexical issues in language learning. It is of interest to scholars and graduate students interested in bi- and multilingualism, second and multiple language acquisition, language processing and language learning, mental lexicon, applied linguistics, psycho- and neurolinguistics and language teaching.Recent research on third language acquisition and trilingualism has made clear that most multilingual studies actually deal with vocabulary learning or the lexicon. So far books on the mental lexicon have mainly been concerned with two languages in contact. This book is unique because it explores the multilingual lexicon by providing insights from research studies conducted in psycholinguistics, applied linguistics and neurolinguistics. It goes beyond the use of two languages and thus concentrates on a new and developing area in linguistic research. The different perspectives included in this volume provide a link to the mainstream work on the lexicon and vocabulary acquisition and will stimulate further debate in these areas and in the study of multilingualism.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	vii
CONTRIBUTORS	ix
1. WHY INVESTIGATE THE MULTILINGUAL LEXICON	1	(10)
Jasone Cenoz, Britta Hufeisen and Ulrike Jessner
2. LEXICAL PROCESSING IN BILINGUALS AND MULTILINGUALS	11	(16)
Ton Dijkstra
3. THE TRANSFER-APPROPRIATE-PROCESSING APPROACH AND THE TRILINGUAL'S ORGANISATION OF THE LEXICON	27	(18)
Ute Schönpflug
4. THE NATURE OF CROSS-LINGUISTIC INTERACTION IN THE MULTILINGUAL SYSTEM	45	(12)
Ulrike Jessner
5. ACTIVATION OF LEMMAS IN THE MULTILINGUAL MENTAL LEXICON AND TRANSFER IN THIRD LANGUAGE LEARNING	57	(14)
Longxing Wei
6. PARASITISM AS A DEFAULT MECHANISM IN L3 VOCABULARY ACQUISITION	71	(16)
Christopher J. Hall and Peter Ecke
7. INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF PRIOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE	87	(16)
Martha Gibson and Britta Hufeisen
8. THE ROLE OF TYPOLOGY IN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE MULTILINGUAL LEXICON	103	(14)
Jasone Cenoz
9. A STRATEGY MODEL OF MULTILINGUAL LEARNING	117	(16)
Johannes Müller-Lancé
10. FORMULAIC UTTERANCES IN THE MULTILINGUAL CONTEXT	133	(20)
Carol Spöttl and Michael McCarthy
11. LEXICON IN THE BRAIN: WHAT NEUROBIOLOGY HAS TO SAY ABOUT LANGUAGES	153	(14)
Rita Franceschini, Daniela Zappatore and Cordula Nitsch
12. PERSPECTIVES ON THE MULTILINGUAL LEXICON: A CRIITICAL SYNTHESIS	167	(10)
David Singleton
REFERENCES	177	(24)
INDEX	201