Language Processing in Bilinguals Psycholinguistic and Neuropsychological Perspectives

For decades, bilingualism has resisted definition. If bilingualism is defined as habitual, fluent, correct and accent-free use of two languages, few individuals would qualify as bilinguals. A more viable approach may be to concede that 'bilingual' can be seen instead as a range of points on a continuum that allows for differences. The psychological study of bilingualism encompasses a wide range of phenomena including the organization and representation of the grammar, the perception and production of language mixing, cerebral lateralization of language functions, and patterns of recovery of aphasic patients. This book collects together an international array of researchers in experimental psychology, linguistics and neuropsychology, who bring their expertise to bear on the critical issues that are raised by the bilingual phenomena.

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Jyotsna Vaid

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• Authors: Jyotsna Vaid, Vaid Jyotsna
• Assisted by: Jyotsna Vaid (Editor), Vaid Jyotsna (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 21.01.2016
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics
• EAN: 9781138974296
• ISBN: 978-1-138-97429-6
• Pages: 320
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics
• Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, semantic information, competition model, Response time, language acquisition research, left hemisphere, RLE, aphasia recovery, Deaf people, code-switching analysis, Phonological Recoding, Asl Sign, cerebral lateralisation, lexical access, experimental psycholinguistics studies, bilingual cognition, multilingual memory processing, Deaf Subjects, Polyglot Aphasia, Left Hemisphere Advantage, Reversed Subtitling, Hemisphere's Role, Sentence Interpretation, deaf signers, Parental Hearing Status, Visual Field Superiority, Processing Chinese Characters, Hemisphere Involvement, Hemisphere Participation, Action Naming Test, ANOVA Summary, Sentence Interpretation Task, L2 Script