Book Review: Knowledge, concepts, and categories. Koen Lamberts and David Shanks (Eds). Psychology Press, Hove, East Sussex, 1997. No. of pages 464. ISBN 0-86377-107-6. Price £24.95 (Hardback)

✍ Scribed by Ian McLaren

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 50 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0888-4080
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0720(199904)13:2<188::aid-acp590>3.0.co;2-o

✦ Synopsis

advocates the latter position. The most compelling of the three chapters in this section is Dufour's Chapter 11. He discusses how the study of signed languages can advance the understanding of bilingualism. The last chapter of the book by Paradis reviews the neuropsychology of bilingualism, suggesting that bilinguals do not appear to dier from the monolinguals in terms of brain structures. However, there may be qualitative or quantitative dierences within brain structures for the two populations.

The book is ideally suited for use as a textbook in a graduate-level course or in an advanced undergraduate course on second language acquisition and bilingualism for those students with a solid background in cognitive psychology. For others in academia, the book can serve as a valuable reference. Nevertheless, more general audiences may ®nd the book a worthwhile purchase for the content of Parts I and III.