Bilingual Sentence Processing

✍ Scribed by Roberto R. Heredia and Jeanette Altarriba (Eds.)

• Publisher: North Holland
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 391
• Series: Advances in Psychology 134
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text provides an overview of the literature on bilingual sentence processing from a psycholinguistic and linguistic perspective. Research focuses on both the visual and spoken modalities, including specific areas of research interest including an integrated review of methods and the utility of those methods which allows readers to have the appropriate background and context for the chapters that follow. Next, issues surrounding acquisition and pragmatic usage are covered with a focus on code-switching and the actual parsing of sentence material both within and between languages. Third, issues regarding memory, placing language in a broader context, are explored as the connection between language, memory, and perception is reviewed for bilingual speakers. Finally, all of this work has direct implications for educational settings-specifically issues surrounding the assessment of proficiency, the development and nature of dominance, and the acquisition of reading skills and reading comprehension for bilingual speakers.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Acknowledgements
Page v
Con Cariño, Roberto R. Heredia, Jeanette Altarriba

Preface
Pages vii-viii
Greg B. Simpson

Introduction and overview
Pages 1-3

1 On-line methods in bilingual spoken language research Original Research Article
Pages 7-28
Roberto R. Heredia, Mark T. Stewart

2 Extending the competition model Original Research Article
Pages 31-57
Brian MacWhinney

3 A self-organizing connectionist model of bilingual processing Original Research Article
Pages 59-85
Ping Li, Igor Farkas

4 Cross-language facilitation, repetition blindness, and the relation between language and memory: Replications of Altarriba and Soltano (1996) and support for a new theory Original Research Article
Pages 89-109
Don MacKay, Lori E. James, Lise Abrams

5 The use of sentence contexts in reading, memory and semantic disambiguation Original Research Article
Pages 111-135
Jeanette Altarriba, Jennifer L. Gianico

6 Exploring language asymmetries in early Spanish-English bilinguals: The role of lexical and sentential context effects Original Research Article
Pages 137-163
Arturo E. Hernández

7 Text comprehension in bilinguals: Integrating perspectives on language representation and text processing Original Research Article
Pages 165-183
Gary E. Raney, Sharon M. Obeidallah, Timothy K. Miura

8 Relative clause attachment in bilinguals and monolinguals Original Research Article
Pages 187-215
Eva M. Fernández

9 An on-line look at sentence processing in the second language Original Research Article
Pages 217-236
Cheryl Frenck-Mestre

10 Cross-linguistic aspects of Anaphor resolution Original Research Article
Pages 237-248
Dieter Hillert

11 Understanding phrasal verbs in monolinguals and bilinguals Original Research Article
Pages 251-274
Teenie Matlock, Roberto R. Heredia

12 What native and non-native speakers' images for idioms tell us about figurative language Original Research Article
Pages 275-295
Heather Bortfeld

13 The role of formal definitions in reading comprehension of bilingual students Original Research Article
Pages 299-316
Aydin Y. Durgunoğlu, Zehra F. Peynircioğlu, Montserrat Mir

14 Syntactic structure, grammatical accuracy, and content in second-language writing: An analysis of skill learning and on-line processing Original Research Article
Pages 317-337
Wendy S. Francis, Laura F. Romo, Rochel Gelman

15 Code-switching in preschool bilingual children Original Research Article
Pages 339-356
Zehra F. Peynircioğlu, Aydin Y. Durgunoğlu

Appendix
Pages 357-358

Authors
Pages 359-361

Author index
Pages 363-372

Subject index
Pages 373-379