Bilingualism

A framework for understanding the mental lexicon

Editors

Maya Libben | [email protected]

Mira Goral | [email protected]

Gary Libben | [email protected]

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ISBN 9789027243775 | EUR 95.00 | USD 143.00

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ISBN 9789027264893 | EUR 95.00 | USD 143.00

In the world today, bilingualism is more common than monolingualism. Thus, the default mental lexicon may in fact be the bilingual lexicon. More than ever, social and technological innovation have created a situation in which lexical knowledge may change dramatically throughout an individual’s lifetime. This book offers a new perspective for the understanding of these phenomena and their consequences for the representation of words in the mind and brain. Contributing authors are leaders in the field who provide a re-analysis of key assumptions and a re-focusing of research. They bring new insights and new findings that advance the understanding of both bilingualism and the mental lexicon. This volume serves to generate new directions and advances in bilingualism research.

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 6] 2017. xvii, 252 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 4 December 2017

https://doi.org/10.1075/bpa.6

Table of Contents

Author information | pp. ix–xii

Languages without borders: Reframing the study of the bilingual mental lexicon

Jyotsna Vaid and Renata F. I. Meuter | pp. 7–26

The bilingual lexicon: A window into language dynamics and cognition

Judith F. Kroll | pp. 27–48

Mechanisms underlying word learning in second language acquisition

Gabriela Meade and Ton Dijkstra | pp. 49–72

The bilingual mental lexicon: A dynamic knowledge system

Ladan Ghazi Saidi, Tanya Dash and Ana Inés Ansaldo | pp. 73–102

Non-selective language activation and bilingualism as the default mental lexicon

Maya Libben | pp. 103–122

The influence of contextual cues on representations in the mental lexicon for bilinguals

Kalinka Timmer, John G. Grundy and Ellen Bialystok | pp. 123–142

When cognate status produces no benefits: Investigating cognate effects during the processing of code-switched sentences

Paola E. Dussias, Jorge R. Valdés Kroff and Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo | pp. 143–180

Lexical retrieval difficulty in bilingual speakers with and without pathology

Mira Goral | pp. 181–196

Morphological integration and the bilingual lexicon

Gary Libben, Mira Goral and Harald Baayen | pp. 197–216

Morphological processing in old-age bilinguals

Harald Clahsen and Jana Reifegerste | pp. 217–248

Index | pp. 249–252

“The works in this volume are based on a truly provocative assumption—that to properly understand the mental lexicon, bilingualism is the correct default context for studying it. For this reason alone, this collection makes a significant contribution. The chapters, all written by leading researchers, provide thorough and compelling analyses, and touch on a comprehensive range of ways to think about the dynamic and integrated nature of the mental lexicon. Graduate students and seasoned researchers alike will profit from the wealth of ideas in this volume. This is a must-have reference for all mental lexicon theorists and researchers.”

Prof. Norman Segalowitz, Concordia University (Montreal)

Cited by (3)

Cited by three other publications

Schwieter, John W. & Anat Prior

2020. Translation Ambiguity. In Bilingual Lexical Ambiguity Resolution, ► pp. 96 ff.

DIJKSTRA, TON, ALEXANDER WAHL, FRANKA BUYTENHUIJS, NINO VAN HALEM, ZINA AL-JIBOURI, MARCEL DE KORTE & STEVEN REKKÉ

2019. Modelling bilingual lexical processing: A research agenda and desiderabilia. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 22:04 ► pp. 703 ff.

Libben, Gary & John W. Schwieter

2019. Lexical Organization and Reorganization in the Multilingual Mind. In The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism, ► pp. 297 ff.

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