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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459918303321

Autore

Groot A. M. B. de.

Titolo

Language and cognition in bilinguals and multilinguals : an introduction / / Annette M.B. de Groot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-89723-2

1-283-03703-3

9786613037039

0-203-84122-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (529 p.)

Disciplina

404.2

Soggetti

Multilingualism - Psychological aspects

Bilingualism - Psychological aspects

Cognition - Psychological aspects

Psycholinguistics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; About the Author; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction and Preview; 2 Early Bilingualism and Age of Acquisition Effects on (First and) Second Language Learning; 3 Late Foreign Vocabulary Learning and Lexical Representation; 4 Comprehension Processes: Word Recognition and Sentence Processing; 5 Word Production and Speech Accents; 6 Language Control; 7 Cognitive Consequences of Bilingualism and Multilingualism; 8 Bilingualism and the Brain; Glossary; References; Author index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Psycholinguistics - the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language - had a strong monolingual orientation during the first four decades following its emergence around 1950. The awareness that a large part of mankind speaks more than one language - that this may impact both on the way each individual language is used and on the thought processes of



bilinguals and multilinguals, and that, consequently, our theories on human linguistic ability and its role in non-linguistic cognition are in