Memory, language, and bilingualism : theoretical and applied approaches

"The relationship between memory and language and the topic of bilingualism are important areas of research in both psychology and linguistics and are grounded in cognitive and linguistic paradigms, theories and experimentation. This volume provides an integrated theoretical/real-world approach...

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Main Authors: Altarriba, Jeanette , 1964- (Author), Isurin, Ludmila (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , c2013
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Bilingual memory: structure, access, and processing
  • 2. Lexical competition in localist and distributed connectionist models of L2 acquisition
  • 3. Working memory and (second) language processing
  • 4. Working memory in simultaneous interpreters
  • 5. Using electrophysiological measures to track the mapping of words to concepts in the bilingual brain: a focus on translation
  • 6. Age effects in L2 learning: comparing child and adult learners' performance on tests of implicit and explicit memory
  • 7. Bilingualism, language and aging
  • 8. Crossovers and codeswitching in the investigation of immigrant autobiographical memory
  • 9. Linguistic relativity and bilingualism
  • 10. Testing effects for novel word learning in Chinese-English bilinguals
  • 11. The lexicon in second language attrition: what happens when the cat's got your tongue?
  • 12. Memory and first language forgetting
  • 13. Future research directions: bilingualism, memory, and language