Introduction to Bilingualism

✍ Scribed by Christina Schelletter

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Drawing together linguists' and psychologists' approaches to the study of bilingualism, this innovative and engaging volume provides students with a firm grounding in bilingual acquisition and development. It begins with a discussion of sequential and simultaneous bilinguals, illustrated by a wealth of case studies and examples, and the key theories surrounding bilingual development. The book subsequently explores topics such as bilingual speech perception, sound, lexical and morpho-syntactic development, cognitive processing and metalinguistic awareness. Introduction to Bilingualism is an essential companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Applied Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Speech and Language Therapy and Language Education.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Bilingual Language Development
Bilingual learners
Simultaneous bilingual children: Case studies
Sequentially bilingual children: Case studies
Bilingual language corpora
Mental representation of the two languages of a bilingual
Summary
Further reading
2 Theories of Bilingual Development
Single system and separate development hypotheses
Universal Grammar and cross-linguistic influences
The Constructivist account and the Usage-based theory
Summary
Further reading
3 Characteristics of the Bilingual Learner
Home and community language
Age of onset
Input and exposure
Language contact: Code-switching and mixing
Final attainment
Summary
Further reading
4 Bilingual Speech Perception and Sound Development
Infant speech perception
Bilingual phonological development
Summary
Further reading
5 Bilingual Lexical Development
The task of word learning in monolingual and bilingual children
Assessing vocabulary in monolingual, bilingual and sequential language learners
Monolingual and bilingual word processing
Summary
Further reading
6 Bilingual Morpho-Syntactic Development
Morpho-syntactic development in monolingual children
Bilingual morpho-syntactic development
Assessment of grammar in different learners
The mental representation of regular and irregular morphology
Summary
Further reading
7 Bilingual Language Processing
Psycholinguistic methods
The monolingual mental lexicon
Models of the bilingual mental lexicon
The developing mental lexicon
Summary
Further reading
8 Bilingual Metalinguistic Awareness
Children’s cognitive development
Metalinguistic awareness and attentional control
Children’s development of executive functions
The bilingual advantage in executive function
Summary
Further reading
9 Further Directions in Studying Bilingual Learners
Bilingual language development
Bilingual language processing
Bilingual reading
Bilingual acquisition: Costs and benefits
Summary
Further reading
Data sources
Bibliography
Glossary of terms
Index