Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 205 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
Theoretical background -- Methods : disentangling language contact, bilingualism, and attrition -- The structure of this book -- State of the art -- Space -- Time -- State of the art -- Cognitive costs in atypical forms of codeswitching -- Reduction of alternative in language -- General discussion and conclusions |
Summary |
"At present, much of the research on bilingual cognition focuses on late second language learners of a small number of languages. In this fascinating book, Evangelia Adamou widens the net by integrating advances in the field of bilingualism with the study of endangered languages. Drawing on recent studies from Europe and Latin America, she demonstrates that experimental psycholinguistic methods can be successfully applied outside the lab and, conversely, how data from these understudied populations provide new insights into the adaptive capacities of the bilingual mind. Adamou shows how bilinguals manage competing conceptualizations of time and space, how their grammars and language mixing patterns adapt to cognitive constraints such as the need for simplification, and how language processing concurrently adapts to their complex bilingual experience. Combining statistical analyses with detailed linguistic and ethnographic information, this essential book will appeal to scholars of bilingualism, cognitive sciences, language endangerment, and language contact"-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 24, 2021) |
Subject |
Bilingualism.
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Endangered languages.
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Languages in contact.
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Bilingualism -- Psychological aspects
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Cognition.
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cognition.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
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Languages in contact.
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Cognition.
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Bilingualism -- Psychological aspects.
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Bilingualism.
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Endangered languages.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2021027039 |
ISBN |
9781108884266 |
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1108884261 |
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