Cognitive Aspects of Bilingualism

by Kecskes, Istvan; Albertazzi, Liliana

• ISBN13: 9781402059346
• ISBN10: 1402059345
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-03
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

A unique feature of this book is that chapters favor that line of cognitive linguistics which makes a clear distinction between real world and projected world. Information conveyed by language must be about the projected world. Both the experimental results and the systematic claims in this volume call for a weak form of whorfianism. Also, chapters add some relatively unexplored issues of bilingualism to the well-known ones, such as gender systems in the bilingual mind, context and task, synergic concepts, blending, the relationship between lexical categorization and ontological categorization among others.

Table of Contents

Structure and components of the bilingual cognitive system
The neurofunctional components of the bilingual cognitive system	p. 3
Synergic concepts in the bilingual mind	p. 29
Matrix : schematic universals : how many minds does a bilingual have?	p. 63
Grammatical gender in the bilingual lexicon : a psycholinguistic approach	p. 99
Bilingualism and cognitive arithmetic	p. 153
The role of cross-linguistic and cross-cultural experiences in bilinguals' divergent thinking	p. 175
Bilingual language processing
Task and context effects in bilingual lexical processing	p. 213
Representation and skill in second language learners and proficient bilinguals	p. 237
Second language gender system affects first language gender classification	p. 271
Beyond language : childhood bilingualism enhances high-level cognitive functions	p. 301
Cross-linguistic and cognitive structures in the acquisition of WH-questions in an Indonesian-Italian bilingual child	p. 325
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