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Author Adamou, Evangelia, author.

Title The adaptive bilingual mind : insights from endangered languages / Evangelia Adamou
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021
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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.
Endangered languages.
Languages in contact.
Bilingualism -- Psychological aspects
Cognition.
cognition.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Languages in contact.
Cognition.
Bilingualism -- Psychological aspects.
Bilingualism.
Endangered languages.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021027039
ISBN 9781108884266
1108884261