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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484642403321

Autore

Szubko-Sitarek Weronika

Titolo

Multilingual Lexical Recognition in the Mental Lexicon of Third Language Users [[electronic resource] /] / by Weronika Szubko-Sitarek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-642-32194-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Second Language Learning and Teaching, , 2193-7648

Disciplina

401.9

410

Soggetti

Psycholinguistics

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.

Nota di contenuto

Beyond Bilingualism: Theoretical Foundations of Multilingualism and Multilingual Language Acquisition -- Modelling the Lexicon -- The Mental Representation of Multilingualism and its Implications for Word Recognition -- The Representation of Cognates in the Multilingual Mind - Background to the Empirical Study -- Cognate Facilitation Effects in the Multilingual Word Recognition.

Sommario/riassunto

The monograph constitutes an attempt to demonstrate that trilinguals should be considered as learners and speakers in their own right as opposed to L2 learners with a view to enumerating consequences this would bring to third or additional language teaching. Its theoretical part offers an insight into the structure of the multilingual mental lexicon which is a product of the interplay of a whole array of cross-linguistic factors in the minds of multilingual speakers. The empirical part reports the findings of an empirical study which aimed to investigate connections which are formed between multiple languages in a multilingual mind. All the aspects, analyzed in the experiments are part of a broader question of how multilinguals make their lexical decisions and, more specifically, how they recognize words from different languages. The book closes with the discussion of the role of the obtained results for multilingual didactics as well as some possible areas for future research.