Kenneth Hyltenstam / K. Obler (eds.)

Bilingualism Across the Lifespan

Aspects of Acquisition, Maturity, and Loss
Herausgeber: Hyltenstam, Kenneth; Obler, Loraine K.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this broad overview of current theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of bilingualism, the contributors examine the dynamics of bilingual language processing over time from the perspectives of neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. This multidisciplinary approach is fundamental to an understanding of how the bilingual's two (or more) language systems interact with each other and with other higher cognitive systems, neurological substrates, and social systems. Contributors examine the nature of bilingualism during various phases of the life cycle and in various health/pathology conditions. Topics range from code separation in the young bilingual child, across various types of language pathologies in adult bilinguals, to language choice problems in dementia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780521359986
• ISBN-10: 0521359988
• Artikelnr.: 21491464

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. Bilingualism across the lifespan: an introduction Kenneth
Hyltenstam and Loraine K. Obler; 2. Early differentiation of languages in
bilingual children Jürgen M. Meisel; 3. Variation in children's ability to
learn second languages Margaret Humes-Bartlo; 4. Idiomaticity as an
indicator of second language proficiency Carlos A. Yorio; 5. Prefabs,
patterns and rules in interaction? formulaic speech in adult learners' L2
Swedish Maria Bolander; 6. The imperfect conditional Eric Kellerman; 7.
Spanish, Japanese and Chinese speakers' acquisition of English relative
clauses: new evidence for the head-direction parameter Suzanne Flynn; 8.
Distinguishing language contact phenomena: evidence from Finnish-English
bilingualism Shana Poplack, Susan Wheeler and Anneli Westwood; 9. The
boustrophedal brain: laterality and dyslexia in bi-directional readers
Loraine K. Obler; 10. Deterioration and creativity in childhood
bilingualism Herbert Seliger; 11. Crosslinguistic influence in language
loss Michael A. Sharwood Smith; 12. Bilingualism in Alzheimer's dementia:
two case studies Kenneth Hyltenstam and Christopher Stroud; 13. Language
processing in the bilingual: evidence from language mixing Ellen Perecman;
Index.