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• Harris, Richard Jackson

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Cognitive processing in bilinguals [electronic resource]

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• Elsevier Books AutoHoldings

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• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Front Cover; Cognitive Processing in Bilinguals; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; PART I: WHO ARE THE BILINGUALS?; Chapter 1. Bilingualism: Not the Exception Any More; Chapter 2. History of Bilingualism Research in Cognitive Psychology; Chapter 3. Another View of Bilingualism; Chapter 4.The Role of Language Background in Cognitive Processing; PART II: BILINGUAL MEMORY; Chapter 5. Bilingual Memory Revisited; Chapter 6. Cognitive Psychology and Second-language Processing: The Role of Short-term Memory; Chapter 7. Working Memory Capacity as a Constraint on L2 Development
• Chapter 8. Linguistic Relativity Revisited: The Bilingual Word-length Effect in Working Memory during Counting, Remembering Numbers, and Mental CalculationChapter 9. The Representation of Translation Equivalents in Bilingual Memory; Chapter 10. The Influence of Semantic Cues in Learning among Bilinguals at Different Levels of Proficiency in English; Chapter 11. Lexical and Conceptual Memory in Fluent and Nonfluent Bilinguals; PART III: LEXICAL ACCESS AND WORD RECOGNITION IN BILINGUALS; Chapter 12. On the Representation and Use of Language Information in Bilinguals
• Chapter 13. Orthographic and Lexical Constraints in Bilingual Word RecognitionChapter 14. Phonological Processing in Bilingual Word Recognition; Chapter 15. Lexical Processing in Bilingual or Multilingual Speakers; Chapter 16. Language as a Factor in the Identification of Ordinary Words and Number Words; Chapter 17. Word Recognition in Second-language Reading; Chapter 18. A Functional View of Bilingual Lexicosemantic Organization; PART IV: THE ROLE OF SYNTAX IN BILINGUAL COGNITIVE PROCESSING; Chapter 19. Changes in Sentence Processing as Second Language Proficiency Increases
• Chapter 20. On-line Integration of Grammatical Information in a Second LanguageChapter 21. Non-native Features of Near-native Speakers: On the Ultimate Attainment of Childhood L2 Learners; PART V: LANGUAGE TRANSFER AND CODE-SWITCHING IN BILINGUALS; Chapter 22. Competition and Transfer in Second Language Learning; Chapter 23. An Overview of Cross-language Transfer in Bilingual Reading; Chapter 24. Auditory and Visual Speech Perception in Alphabetic and Nonalphabetic Chinese-Dutch Bilinguals
• Chapter 25. A Study of Interlingual and Intralingual Stroop Effect in Three Different Scripts: Logograph, Syllabary, and AlphabetChapter 26. Code-switching and Language Dominance; Chapter 27. Cultural Influences of a Reading Text on the Concept Formation of Second-language Learners of Two Nigerian Ethnic Groups; PART VI: METALINGUISTIC SKILLS IN BILINGUALS; Chapter 28. Language Awareness and Language Separation in the Young Bilingual Child; Chapter 29. Selective Attention in Cognitive Processing: The Bilingual Edge; Chapter 30. Translation Ability: A Natural Bilingual and Metalinguistic Skill
• Chapter 31. Metalinguistic Awareness in Second- and Third-language Learning
• This collection of 33 papers represents the most current thinking andresearch on the study of cognitive processing in bilingual individuals. Thecontributors include well-known figures in the field and promising newscholars, representing four continents and work in dozens of languages.Instead of the social, political, or educational implications ofbilingualism, the focus is on how bilingual people (mostly adults) thinkand process language.
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