Second Language Lexical Processes Applied Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives

by Lengyel, Zsolt; Navracsics, Judit

• ISBN13: 9781853599675
• ISBN10: 1853599670
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-17
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

The book contains studies on second language lexical processes based on empirical findings by authors mostly from Central Europe. The reader may have access to the storage and working of second language lexicons. Questions of integration, storage, vocabulary acquisition and assessment, word retrieval, and lexical access are the focus of the studies, which include reference to language users from Finno-Ugric (Hungarian) and Slavic (Croatian, Polish) language backgrounds.

Author Biography

Zsolt Lengyel is a professor at the University of Pannonia, Veszprém, a part time professor at the University of Pécs and a visiting professor at Zagreb University, Croatia. He took his MA in Hungarian, Russian philology and Applied linguistics at Debrecen University, Hungary. He received PhD in developmental psycholinguistics. He was given Brassai Sámuel Award in 2002. His research interests include language development of Hungarian children, development of literacy before schooling, bilingual education in the kindergarten, word associations of 10-14 year old children and students of 18-24 years of age. He has written numerous articles, books on the mentioned topics. He is editor, member of editorial boards of several applied linguistics journals both in Hungary and abroad. Judit Navracsics took her MA degree in Russian at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, in English at University of Pannonia, Veszprém, her Ph.D. degree at Pécs University. She is an associate professor at the Department of Applied Linguistics, at the University of Pannonia. She is Secretary of Applied Linguistics Branch of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, her habilitation is underway. She does research into bi- and multilingualism. She is the author and editor of books and papers on childhood bi- and trilingualism, the psycholinguistic aspects of multilingualism, early second language acquisition and the bilingual mental lexicon.

Table of Contents

How integrated is the integrated mental lexicon?	p. 3
Word classes and the bilingual mental lexicon	p. 17
Speech perception processing in first and second language in bilinguals and L2 learners	p. 39
A comparative study of mother-tongue and foreign language speech perception, lexical access and speech comprehension processes	p. 60
Slip of the doctor's eye : recognising English contact induced features in Hungarian medical texts	p. 83
Vocabulary assessment in writing : lexical statistics	p. 101
The use of high- and low-frequency verbs in English native and non-native student writing	p. 117
Selection of grammatical morphemes in early bilingual development	p. 133
The importance of language specific features for vocabulary acquisition : an example of Croatian	p. 146
Analysing L2 lexical processes via C test	p. 166
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