Modeling bilingualism from structure to chaos : in honor of Kees de Bot /

This volume presents an overview of changes in paradigms, perspectives and contexts of research into bilingual development over the past two decades. During this time, the focus of perspective has changed. In the early 1990s, most investigations still proceeded from models that assumed modular compo...

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Other Authors: De Bot, Kees, Schmid, Monika S., Lowie, Wander, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011
Series:Studies in bilingualism ; 43.
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Table of Contents:
  • From structure to chaos: twenty years of modeling bilingualism / Diane Larsen-Freeman, Monika S. Schmid and Wander Lowie
  • Psycholinguistic perspectives on language processing in bilinguals / Judith Kroll and Daan Hermans
  • Triggered codeswitching: evidence from picture naming experiments / Mirjam Broersma
  • Working memory capacity, inhibitory control, and proficiency in a second language / Susan Gass and Junkyu Lee
  • Explanations of associations between l1 and l2 literacy skills / Jan H. Hulstijn
  • The acquisition, attrition, and relearning of mission vocabulary / Lynne Hansen
  • Second language attrition: theory, research and challenges / Lelia Murtagh
  • Contact X time: external factors and variability in l1 attrition / Monika S. Schmid
  • The shifting structure of emotion semantics across immigrant generations: effects of the second culture on the first language / Robert W. Schrauf and Julia Sanchez
  • Bilingualism, code-switching and aging: a myth of attrition and a tale of collaboration / Michael Clyne
  • Language reversion versus general cognitive decline: towards a new taxonomy of language change in elderly bilingual immigrants / Merel Keijzer
  • A dynamic model of expert-novice co-adaptation during language learning and acquisition / Paul van Geert, Henderien Steenbeek and Marijn van Dijk
  • The dynamics of multilingualism: Levelt's speaking model revisited / Wander Lowie and Marjolijn Verspoor
  • Epilogue: twenty years of modeling bilingualism, from chaos to structure and back again / Bert Weltens.