Neuroscience and Multilingualism
1st Edition
Published on 20. August 2014
978-1-316-05635-6 (ISBN)
Description
How are languages represented in the human brain? Ideas from neuroscience have increasingly been applied to the study of language, exploring the neural processes involved in acquisition, maintenance and loss of language and languages, and the interaction between languages in bi- and multilingual speakers. With a sharp focus on multilingualism, this culmination of cutting-edge research sheds light on this challenging question. Using data from a variety of experiments, this is the first book-length study to offer a new neuroscientific model for analysing multilingualism. Alongside a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical and experimental contributions to the field, it presents new data and analysis obtained from a multilingualism fMRI study. It also includes a unique longitudinal study of second and third language acquisition combined with extensive empirically valid language proficiency data of the subjects. A must-read for researchers and advanced students interested in neurolinguistics, second language acquisition, and bi- and multilingualism.
Reviews / Votes
'Andrews does an impressive job of educating readers about new ideas in the neurobiology of language, reviews an enormous amount of data on the brain basis of speech and language processing, and throughout provides provocative theoretical perspectives.' David Poeppel, New York UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Cambridge University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 Tables, black and white; 65 Halftones, color; 8 Halftones, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white
File size
7038,58 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-316-05635-6 (9781316056356)
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Edna Andrews
Neuroscience and Multilingualism
Book
09/2014
Cambridge University Press
€160.30
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Person
Edna Andrews is Professor of Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology and Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University.
Content
1. Assembling the pieces, the neuroscience disciplines essential for the study of language and brain; 2. Building the basis, linguistic contributions to a theory of language and their relevance to the study of language and brain; 3. Neuroscience applications to the study of multilingualism; 4. Exploring the boundaries of cognitive linguistics and neurolinguistics: re-imagining cross-cultural contributions; 5. Imaging technologies in the study of multilingualism: focus on BOLD fMRI; 6. Reassembling the pieces: languages and brains.
