Handbook of Bilingualism Psycholinguistic Approaches

by Kroll, Judith F.; De Groot, Annette M. B.

• ISBN13: 9780195151770
• ISBN10: 0195151771
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Until recently, cognitive science virtually ignored the fact that most people of the world are bilingual. During the past ten years this situation has changed markedly. There is now an appreciation that learning and using more than one language is the more natural circumstance of cognition.As a result, there is a wealth of new research on second-language learning and bilingualism that provides not only crucial evidence for the universality of cognitive principles, but also an important tool for revealing constraints within the cognitive architecture. In this volume, Judith Kroll andAnnette de Groot have brought together the scientists at the forefront of research on second-language learning and bilingualism to present chapters overviews of this emerging field. Bilingualism provides a lens through which each of the sections of this book focus on different facets of thosequestions: How is language acquired when infants are exposed to multiple-language input from birth, and how is it acquired when adults are required to learn a second language after early childhood? How do adult bilinguals comprehend and produce words and sentences when their two languages arepotentially always active and in competition with one another? What are the neural mechanisms that underlie proficient bilingualism? What are the general consequences of bilingualism for cognition, as well as for language and thought? This handbook will be essential reading for cognitivepsychologists, linguists, applied linguists, and educators who wish to better understand the cognitive basis of bilingualism and the logic of experimental and formal approaches to language science.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
I. Acquisition
Introduction to Part I: Acquisition	3	(6)
Nick C. Ellis
The Learning of Foreign Language Vocabulary	9	(21)
Annette M. B. de Groot
Janet G. van Hell
SYNTAX
Early Bilingual Acquisition: Focus on Morphosyntax and the Separate Development Hypothesis	30	(19)
Annick De Houwer
A Unified Model of Language Acquisition	49	(19)
Brian MacWhinney
Phonology and Bilingualism	68	(20)
Nuria Sebastian-Galles
Laura Bosch
BIOLOGICAL BASES
What Does the Critical Period Really Mean?	88	(21)
Robert DeKeyser
Jenifer Larson-Hall
Interpreting Age Effects in Second Language Acquisition	109	(19)
David Birdsong
Processing Constraints on L1 Transfer	128	(26)
Manfred Pienemann
Bruno Di Biase
Satomi Kawaguchi
Gisela Hakansson
Models of Monolingual and Bilingual Language Acquisition	154	(25)
Jaap M. J. Murre
II. Comprehension
Introduction to Part II: Comprehension	173	(6)
Natasha Tokowicz
Charles A. Perfetti
Bilingual Visual Word Recognition and Lexical Access	179	(23)
Ton Dijkstra
Computational Models of Bilingual Comprehension	202	(24)
Michael S. C. Thomas
Walter J. B. van Heuven
The Representation of Cognate and Noncognate Words in Bilingual Memory: Can Cognate Status Be Characterized as a Special Kind of Morphological Relation?	226	(25)
Rosa Sanchez-Casas
Jose E. Garcia-Albea
Bilingual Semantic and Conceptual Representation	251	(17)
Wendy S. Francis
Ambiguities and Anomalies: What Can Eye Movements and Event-Related Potentials Reveal About Second Language Sentence Processing?	268	(21)
Cheryl Frenck-Mestre
III. Production and Control
Introduction to Part III: Production and Control	285	(4)
Herbert Schriefers
Selection Processes in Monolingual and Bilingual Lexical Access	289	(19)
Wido La Heij
Lexical Access in Bilingual Production	308	(18)
Albert Costa
Supporting a Differential Access Hypothesis: Code Switching and Other Contact Data	326	(23)
Carol Myers-Scotton
Language Selection in Bilinguals: Mechanisms and Processes	349	(22)
Renata F. I. Meuter
Automaticity in Bilingualism and Second Language Learning	371	(18)
Norman Segalowitz
Jan Hulstijn
Being and Becoming Bilingual: Individual Differences and Consequences for Language Production	389	(28)
Erica B. Michael
Tamar H. Gollan
IV. Aspects and Implications of Bilingualism
Introduction to Part IV: Aspects and Implications of Bilingualism	411	(6)
Michel Paradis
COGNITIVE CONSEQUENCES
Consequences of Bilingualism for Cognitive Development	417	(16)
Ellen Bialystok
Bilingualism and Thought	433	(21)
Aneta Pavlenko
Simultaneous Interpreting: A Cognitive Perspective	454	(26)
Ingrid K. Christoffels
Annette M. B. de Groot
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE APPROACHES
Clearing the Cobwebs From the Study of the Bilingual Brain: Converging Evidence From Laterality and Electrophysiological Research	480	(17)
Rachel Hull
Jyotsna Vaid
What Can Functional Neuroimaging Tell Us About the Bilingual Brain?	497	(19)
Jubin Abutalebi
Stefano F. Cappa
Daniela Perani
The Neurocognition of Recovery Patterns in Bilingual Aphasics	516	(15)
David W. Green
Models of Bilingual Representation and Processing: Looking Back and to the Future	531	(24)
Judith F. Kroll
Natasha Tokowicz
Author Index	555	(20)
Subject Index	575