Evangelia Adamou

The Adaptive Bilingual Mind

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By applying advances in the field of bilingualism to the study of endangered languages, this groundbreaking book makes typologically rare data accessible to readers from the field of bilingualism, while making experimental methods accessible to those studying endangered languages. It is essential reading for scholars in both fields.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781108839518
• ISBN-10: 1108839517
• Artikelnr.: 60402387

Autorenporträt

Evangelia Adamou is Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction and methods
1. Theoretical background
2. Methods: disentangling language contact, bilingualism, and attrition
3. The structure of this book
Part I. Do Bilinguals Maintain Language-specific Conceptualizations: 4. State of the art
5. Space
6. Time
Part II. Are Bilinguals Confronted with High Cognitive Costs: 7. State of the art
8. Cognitive costs in atypical forms of codeswitching
9. Reduction of alternative in language
Part III. Conclusions: 10. General discussion and conclusions
Glossary
Appendix.