Title Page
......Page 5
Copyright Page......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Author Biographies......Page 10
Introduction......Page 13
Introduction......Page 16
General Aspects of Bilingualism......Page 17
Bilingual Children......Page 25
References......Page 33
Introduction......Page 37
From the Speech Wave to the Mental Representation......Page 38
Processing in Bilingual Adults......Page 41
Processing in Bilingual Children......Page 45
References......Page 49
Part I Speech Processing in Adults
......Page 53
Perception of Speech Segments by Bilinguals......Page 55
Factors Affecting Bilinguals’ Speech Perception......Page 60
Theories of Cross‐Language Speech Perception......Page 66
The Role of Suprasegmentals in Speech Perception......Page 70
Future Challenges and Directions......Page 72
References......Page 73
Introduction......Page 77
How Does Word Recognition Take Place and How Do Bilinguals Fare?......Page 78
Language Proficiency, Use and History......Page 79
Lower Level Information......Page 83
Processing Mechanisms and Strategies......Page 85
The Activation of Candidates......Page 89
Summary......Page 94
References......Page 95
Auditory Sentence Comprehension: Stages and Principles......Page 98
Syntactic Analysis......Page 102
Processing the Meaning of Words......Page 109
Syntactic Integration and Revision......Page 114
Discussion and Conclusion......Page 115
Summary......Page 116
References......Page 117
Introduction......Page 121
Does the Perception of Spoken Code‐Switches Take Extra Time?......Page 122
The Recognition of Guest Words......Page 127
The Processing of Interferences......Page 135
References......Page 138
Issues in Bilingual Assessment......Page 141
Word Recognition......Page 143
Word Frequency and Familiarity......Page 146
Recognition of Connected Speech......Page 149
Factors That Affect Assessment of Speech Perception in Bilinguals......Page 152
Summary......Page 156
References......Page 157
Part II Speech Processing in Children
......Page 163
Introduction......Page 165
Simultaneous Bilingual Infants......Page 166
Child L2 Learners......Page 178
Summary......Page 183
References......Page 184
Finding Words in the Speech Stream......Page 188
Learning New Words......Page 191
Recognizing Familiar Words......Page 196
The Role of Speech Perception in Learning and Recognizing Words......Page 199
Bilingual Children’s Vocabulary......Page 202
References......Page 206
Introduction......Page 211
Asymmetries Between Comprehension and Production......Page 213
Real-Time Processing
......Page 217
Cross-Linguistic Influence
......Page 219
Input and Exposure......Page 226
Summary......Page 228
References......Page 229
Defining Language Impairment......Page 232
Phonological Perception and Word Learning......Page 233
Challenges in Assessment of Bilingual Children......Page 235
Assessment of Single Word Knowledge......Page 239
Assessment of Semantic Knowledge......Page 245
Summary......Page 248
References......Page 249
Index......Page 256
EULA......Page 266