Adaptive Bilingual Mind - Insights From Endangered Languages

By applying advances in the field of bilingualism to the study of endangered languages, this groundbreaking book makes typologically rare data accessible to readers from the field of bilingualism, while making experimental methods accessible to those studying endangered languages. It is essential reading for scholars in both fields.

List of contents

Preface; Introduction and methods; 1. Theoretical background; 2. Methods: disentangling language contact, bilingualism, and attrition; 3. The structure of this book; Part I. Do Bilinguals Maintain Language-specific Conceptualizations: 4. State of the art; 5. Space; 6. Time; Part II. Are Bilinguals Confronted with High Cognitive Costs: 7. State of the art; 8. Cognitive costs in atypical forms of codeswitching; 9. Reduction of alternative in language; Part III. Conclusions: 10. General discussion and conclusions; Glossary; Appendix.

About the author

Evangelia Adamou is Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France.

Summary

By applying advances in the field of bilingualism to the study of endangered languages, this groundbreaking book makes typologically rare data accessible to readers from the field of bilingualism, while making experimental methods accessible to those studying endangered languages. It is essential reading for scholars in both fields.

Product details

• Authors: Evangelia Adamou, Evangelia (Centre National De La Recherche Adamou, Adamou Evangelia
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781108839518
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83951-8
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Psycholinguistics, Language: history & general works, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Language: history and general works, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Bilingualism and multilingualism