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The bilingual lexicon / edited by Robert Schreuder, Bert Weltens.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in bilingualism ; v. 6.
- Studies in bilingualism ; v. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bilingualism--Lexicology.
- Bilingualism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the study of bilingualism, the lexical level of language is of prime importance because, in practical terms, vocabulary acquisition is an essential prerequisite for the development of skill in language use; from a theoretical point of view, the mental lexicon, as a bridge between form and meaning, plays a crucial role in any model of language processing. A central issue in this volume is at which level of the bilingual speaker's lexicon languages share representations and how language-specific representations may be linked.The contributors favor a dynamic, developmental perspective on
- Contents:
- The bilingual lexicon : an overview / Robert Schreuder & Bert Weltens
- Visual word recognition in bilinguals / Jonathan Grainger
- Word-type effects in bilingual processing tasks : support for a mixed-representational system / Annette M.B. de Groot
- Accessing conceptual representations for words in a second language / Judith F. Kroll
- Translating versus picture naming : similarities and differences / Joan Gay Snodgrass
- Vocabulary size, growth, and use / Paul Nation
- Attrition of vocabulary knowledge / Bert Weltens & Marjon Grendel
- A theoretical account of lexical communication strategies / Nanda Poulisse
- Word production and the bilingual lexicon / Kees de Bot & Robert Schreuder
- The bilingual lexicon : exercise, meaning and morphology / Kim Kirsner, Erin Lalor & Kathryn Hird
- Towards a model of L2 comprehension and production / David W. Green
- The bilingual lexicon and the teaching of vocabulary / Paul Meara.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-55619-536-2
- 90-272-8285-4
- 9786613222220
- 1-283-22222-1
- OCLC:
- 742333675
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