| Description |
xi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Bilingualism across the lifespan : an introduction / Kenneth Hyltenstam and Loraine K. Obler -- Early differentiation of languages in bilingual children / Jürgen M. Meisel -- Variation in children's ability to learn second languages / Margaret Humes-Bartlo -- Idiomaticity as an indicator of second language proficiency / Carlos A. Yorio -- Prefabs, patterns and rules in interaction? Formulaic speech in adult learners' L2 Swedish / Maria Bolander -- The imperfect conditional / Eric Kellerman -- Spanish, Japanese and Chinese speakers' acquisition of English relative clauses : new evidence for the head-direction parameter / Suzanne Flynn -- Distinguishing language contact phenomena : evidence from Finnish-English bilingualism / Shana Poplack, Susan Wheeler and Anneli Westwood -- |
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The boustrophedal brain : laterality and dyslexia in bi-directional readers / Loraine K. Obler -- Deterioration and creativity in childhood bilingualism / Herbert Seliger -- Crosslinguistic influence in language loss / Michael A. Sharwood Smith -- Bilingualism in Alzheimer's dementia : two case studies / Kenneth Hyltenstam and Christopher Stroud -- Language processing in the bilingual : evidence from language mixing / Ellen Perecman |
| Analysis |
Bilingualism Neuropsychological aspects |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Bilingualism.
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Language acquisition.
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| Author |
Hyltenstam, Kenneth.
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Obler, Loraine K.
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| LC no. |
88031178 |
| ISBN |
0521352258 |
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0521359988 (paperback) |
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