The bilingual mental lexicon [ interdisciplinary approaches

"How are words organized in the bilingual mind? How are they linked to concepts? How do bi- and multilinguals process words in their multiple languages? The first aim of this volume is to offer up-to-date answers to these questions. Its second aim is to provide readers with detailed step-by-ste...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pavlenko, Aneta , 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK : Multilingual Matters , c2009
Series:Bilingual education & bilingualism [70]
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Online Access:NetLibrary
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Neurollinguistic contributions to understanding the bilingual mental lexicon
  • 2. Bilingual lexicon and bilingual autobiographical memory
  • 3. Audio-visual integration during bilingual language processing
  • 4. Overview of semantic processing in bilinguals
  • 5. Lexical transfer
  • 6. Conceptual representation in the bilingual lexicon and second language vocabulary learning
  • 7. Why gestures are relevant to the bilingual lexicon
  • 8. Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon as a window on (bilingual) lexical retrieval
  • 9. L1 attrition and the mental lexicon