Chapter 5
Bilingual representation
Article outline
- 1.Introduction: The significance of bilingual representation
- 2.Syntactic and phonological representation in the bilingual mind
- 2.1How is human language to be defined?
- 2.2Syntactic representations in the bilingual mind
- 2.3Phonological representations in the bilingual mind
- 2.4Reconceptualizing the bilingual mental lexicon
- 3.Conceptual representation in the bilingual mind
- 3.1Conceptual representation
- 3.1.1The conceptual system in the brain
- 3.1.2Locating memory categories within the framework
- 3.1.3Conceptual primitives
- 3.2Metalinguistic knowledge
- 3.3Bilingual conceptual structures
- 3.4Metalinguistic knowledge in the bilingual mind
- 4.Sign language
- 5.Relations to existing models of conceptual representation in bilingualism
- 5.1The Revised Hierarchical Model (RHM)
- 5.2The Bilingual Interactive Activation Plus Model (BIA+)
- 5.3The Modified Hierarchical Model (MHM)
- 5.4Areas of consensus and limitations
- 6.Conclusion
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Notes