Michael Sharwood Smith, John Truscott

The Multilingual Mind

A Modular Processing Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Language lies at the heart of the way we think, communicate and view the world. Most people on this planet are in some sense multilingual. The Multilingual Mind explores, within a processing perspective, how languages share space and interact in our minds.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 149mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781107612457
• ISBN-10: 1107612454
• Artikelnr.: 57674679

Autorenporträt

Michael Sharwood Smith is Emeritus Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and Honorary Professorial Fellow at Edinburgh University. He is also the founding editor of the journal Second Language Research.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I. The Framework: 2. The language module: architecture and representations
3. Processing in the language module
4. Growth of the language module: acquisition by processing
5. Beyond the language module
Part II. Applying the Framework: 6. The bilingual mind introduced
7. The growth of a second language
8. Consciousness and attention
9. The role of consciousness in language growth
10. Issues in SLA revisited
11. Conclusion
References.