Bilingual Mental Lexicon - Interdisciplinary Approaches

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Aneta Pavlenko is an Associate Professor at the College of Education, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. She has lectured widely in Europe, North America, and Japan, and published numerous scientific articles and book chapters on sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics of bilingualism and second language acquisition. She is an author of Emotions and Multilingualism (Cambridge University Press, 2005), co-author of Crosslinguistic Influence in Language and Cognition (with Scott Jarvis; Routledge, 2008), editor of Bilingual Minds (Multilingual Matters, 2006) and co-editor of Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts (Multilingual Matters, 2004). Klappentext How are words organized in the bilingual mind? How are they linked to concepts? How do bi- and multilinguals process words in their multiple languages? Contributions to this volume offer up-to-date answers to these questions and provide a detailed introduction to interdisciplinary approaches used to investigate the bilingual lexicon. Zusammenfassung How are words organized in the bilingual mind? How are they linked to concepts? How do bi- and multilinguals process words in their multiple languages? Contributions to this volume offer up-to-date answers to these questions and provide a detailed introduction to interdisciplinary approaches used to investigate the bilingual lexicon.

Product details

• Assisted by: Aneta Pavlenko (Editor)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.01.2009
• EAN: 9781847691255
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-125-5
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 217 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism; Bilingual Education and Biling; Bilingual Education & Bilingua; Bilingual Education & Bilingualism; Bilingual Education and Biling
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures