The multilingual mind : a modular processing perspective / Michael Sharwood Smith, John Truscott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharwood Smith, Michael, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism.

Physical Description:

xvii, 410 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, [2014]

Summary:

"This book is the first detailed description of a particular theoretical framework for studying language development and language performance. The framework is called MOGUL (Modular On-line Growth and Use of Language). It has been the topic of numerous publications and presentations since the appearance of our 2004 keynote article in Bilingualism: Language & Cognition. MOGUL is not just about how a language grows in the individual child: it is about how the mind expands to accommodate more than one language both in childhood and later in life and how these various linguistic systems share space and interact"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; Part I. The Framework: 2. The language module: architecture and representations; 3. Processing in the language module; 4. Growth of the language module: acquisition by processing; 5. Beyond the language module; Part II. Applying the Framework: 6. The bilingual mind introduced; 7. The growth of a second language; 8. Consciousness and attention; 9. The role of consciousness in language growth; 10. Issues in SLA revisited; 11. Conclusion; References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107040854

110704085X

OCLC:

854761716

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