Modeling bilingualism from structure to chaos : in honor of Kees de Bot / edited by Monika S. Schmid, Wander Lowie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Bot, Kees.

Schmid, Monika S.

Lowie, Wander, 1959-

Series:

Studies in bilingualism ; v. 43.

Studies in bilingualism, 0928-1533 ; v. 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bilingualism.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

vi, 308 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This volume presents an overview of changes in paradigms, perspectives and contexts of research into bilingual development over the past two decades. During this time, the focus of perspective has changed. In the early 1990s, most investigations still proceeded from models that assumed modular components, hierarchical relationships and linear processes, and investigated what were perceived to be the 'typical' contexts of bilingual development (sequential, usually instructed bilingualism, where the second language would remain the weaker one and the speakers investigated were typically young adults). More recently it has been proposed that such models may not be complex enough to accommodate bilingual development in all its facets and settings (bimodal bilingualism, attrition, aging). This change has recently culminated in applications of chaos theory to Applied Linguistics, and in the widening range of situations of language acquisition, learning and deterioration which have been investigated.

Contents:

From structure to chaos: twenty years of modeling bilingualism / Diane Larsen-Freeman, Monika S. Schmid and Wander Lowie

Psycholinguistic perspectives on language processing in bilinguals / Judith Kroll and Daan Hermans

Triggered codeswitching: evidence from picture naming experiments / Mirjam Broersma

Working memory capacity, inhibitory control, and proficiency in a second language / Susan Gass and Junkyu Lee

Explanations of associations between l1 and l2 literacy skills / Jan H. Hulstijn

The acquisition, attrition, and relearning of mission vocabulary / Lynne Hansen

Second language attrition: theory, research and challenges / Lelia Murtagh

Contact X time: external factors and variability in l1 attrition / Monika S. Schmid

The shifting structure of emotion semantics across immigrant generations: effects of the second culture on the first language / Robert W. Schrauf and Julia Sanchez

Bilingualism, code-switching and aging: a myth of attrition and a tale of collaboration / Michael Clyne

Language reversion versus general cognitive decline: towards a new taxonomy of language change in elderly bilingual immigrants / Merel Keijzer

A dynamic model of expert-novice co-adaptation during language learning and acquisition / Paul van Geert, Henderien Steenbeek and Marijn van Dijk

The dynamics of multilingualism: Levelt's speaking model revisited / Wander Lowie and Marjolijn Verspoor

Epilogue: twenty years of modeling bilingualism, from chaos to structure and back again / Bert Weltens.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-05143-5

9786613051431

90-272-8700-7

OCLC:

712015644