Studying bilinguals /

"Even though more than half the world's population is bilingual, the study of bilinguals has lagged behind that of monolinguals. With this book, which draws on twenty-five years of the author's research, Francois Grosjean contributes significantly to redressing the balance.The volume...

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Main Author: Grosjean, François
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:Oxford linguistics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A wholistic view of bilingualism
  • The complementarity principle and language restructuring
  • The bilingual's language modes
  • Manipulating language mode
  • The base-language effect in speech perception
  • Base-language effect and categorical perception
  • Is there a base-language effect in speech production?
  • The gender marking effect in bilinguals
  • The role of guest word properties
  • The Lewy and Grosjean BIMOLA model
  • The bicultural person: a short introduction
  • The bilingualism and biculturalism of the beaf
  • Methodological and conceptual issues
  • Imaging bilinguals.