Bilingualism : A Framework for Understanding the Mental Lexicon.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (272 pages)
- Bilingual Processing and Acquisition Series ; v.6 .
- Bilingual Processing and Acquisition Series .
Intro -- Bilingualism -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Author information -- Prologue: Polyglossia as a personal journey -- The dynamic lexicon: Complex words in bilingual minds -- 1. Dynamicity and integration across chapters -- Author note -- Languages without borders: Reframing the study of the bilingual mental lexicon -- 1. Metaphors of bilingual abilities -- 2. Some predictions -- 3. Evidence related to prediction on research settings -- 4. Evidence related to prediction on characterization of bilinguals -- 5. Evidence related to prediction on group comparisons -- 6. Evidence related to predictions on bilingual forms of language use -- 7. Towards a bilingual focus in research on bilingualism -- 8. Some recommendations -- 9. Conclusion: Why rethinking the study of bilingualism matters -- Author note -- References -- The bilingual lexicon: A window into language dynamics and cognition -- 1. Lexical access in two languages -- 2. The consequences of dual language activation for the bilingual lexicon -- 3. Controlling lexical access in the native language -- 4. The cognitive consequences of bilingual lexical processing -- 5. Conclusions -- Author note -- References -- Mechanisms underlying word learning in second language acquisition -- 1. Two approaches to L2 word learning -- 2. Learning the form of a new word -- 3. Learning the meaning of a new word -- 4. Connecting form to meaning in word learning -- 5. Theoretical considerations and discussion -- References -- The bilingual mental lexicon: A dynamic knowledge system -- 1. Overview -- 2. The bilingual mental lexicon: A complex system -- 3. The bilingual mental lexicon: A dynamic knowledge system -- 4. Conclusion: The bilingual mental lexicon: A dynamic and complex system -- 5. A dynamic and complex system: Implications -- References. Non-selective language activation and bilingualism as the default mental lexicon -- 1. The impact of lexical features on selective vs. non-selective language activation -- 2. Models of bilingual language processing -- 3. The effect of language dominance on non-selective access -- 4. The effect of context on non-selective bilingual access -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- The influence of contextual cues on representations in the mental lexicon for bilinguals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Representations in the bilingual lexicon -- 3. Language context -- 4. Cultural context -- 5. Conclusions and implications for bilingual models -- Author note -- References -- When cognate status produces no benefits: Investigating cognate effects during the processing of code-switched sentences -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The present study -- 3. Results -- 4. Code-switches involving the progressive structure -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Author note -- References -- Appendix: Experimental item sets -- Lexical retrieval difficulty in bilingual speakers with and without pathology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lexical change in first-language attrition -- 3. Lexical retrieval impairment in bilingual aphasia -- 4. Lexical retrieval changes in bilingual older adults -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Morphological integration and the bilingual lexicon -- 1. The hypothesis of morphological integration -- 2. Compound words as an ideal testing domain -- 3. Compound structure in Hebrew and English -- 4. A window to morphological integration -- 5. Method -- 6. Results and conclusions -- 7. General discussion -- Author note -- References -- Morphological processing in old-age bilinguals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Linguistic background: Past participles in German -- 3. Psycholinguistic background I: Inflectional processing in the L1. 4. Psycholinguistic background II: Inflectional processing in the L2 -- 5. Experiment 1: Morphological priming in old-age bilinguals -- 6. Experiment 2: Speeded production in old-age bilinguals -- 7. General discussion -- Author note -- References -- Index.
This volume serves to generate new directions and advances in bilingualism research.