Modeling Bilingualism
From Structure to Chaos. In Honor of Kees de Bot
1st Edition
Published on 14. March 2011
VII, 308 pages
978-90-272-8700-7 (ISBN)
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This volume presents an overview of changes in paradigms, perspectives and contexts of research into bilingual development over the past two decades. During this time, the focus of perspective has changed. In the early 1990s, most investigations still proceeded from models that assumed modular components, hierarchical relationships and linear processes, and investigated what were perceived to be the 'typical' contexts of bilingual development (sequential, usually instructed bilingualism, where the second language would remain the weaker one and the speakers investigated were typically young adults). More recently it has been proposed that such models may not be complex enough to accommodate bilingual development in all its facets and settings (bimodal bilingualism, attrition, aging). This change has recently culminated in applications of chaos theory to Applied Linguistics, and in the widening range of situations of language acquisition, learning and deterioration which have been investigated.
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Content
- Modeling Bilingualism
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction: From structure to chaos. Twenty years of modeling bilingualism
- Models and structures
- A dynamic view of language development
- References
- Part I. Multilingualism
- Psycholinguistic perspectives on language processing in bilinguals
- Bilingual language processing
- Developing L2 proficiency
- Cross-language activation in comprehension and production
- Bimodal bilingualism
- Bilingual word recognition studies in deaf children and deaf adults
- Understanding the nature of cross-language effects in bimodal bilinguals
- Research on hearing bimodal bilinguals
- The cognitive consequences of bilingualism
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgement
- References
- Triggered codeswitching: Evidence from picture naming experiments
- Experiment 1: Cued language switching
- Experiment 2: Free language switching
- General discussion
- References
- Working memory capacity, inhibitory control, and proficiency in a second language
- Working memory
- Inhibitory control
- Working memory capacity and inhibition
- Language of working memory tests
- Research questions
- The study
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgement
- References
- Appendix A
- Explanations of associations between L1 and L2 literacy skills
- Cummins' theory of common underlying proficiency
- Clarke's short-circuit hypothesis and Alderson's threshold hypotheses
- Studies published after Alderson (1984) and Cummins (1991a)
- Review of studies
- Studies using covariance structure analyses
- A theoretical account of the association between L1 and L2 literacy
- Language ability theory
- Acknowledgement
- References
- Part II. Language attrition
- The acquisition, attrition, and relearning of mission vocabulary
- Comparing the acquisition and attrition of mission vocabulary
- Savings in the relearning of mission vocabulary
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgement
- References
- Second language attrition: Theory, research and challenges
- Quasi-longitudinal studies in second language attrition
- Features of second language attrition
- Rate of attrition, initial proficiency, and critical threshold
- A psycholinguistic model of bilingual processing in attrition
- Motivation and use in the study of second language retention
- Methodological issues in second language attrition research
- Retention of general and speaking proficiency in L2 (Irish)
- Conclusion
- References
- Contact x time: External factors and variability in L1 attrition
- Attrition and variability
- The study
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Appendix
- The shifting structure of emotion semantics across immigrant generations
- Semantic domains/cultural domains
- The two-dimensional model of the emotion domain and cross-cultural validation
- Replication of the two-dimensional model among bilinguals
- Individual and cultural differences in valence vs. arousal contrasts
- Predictions
- Sample
- Data collection
- Analysis
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Part III. Language and aging
- Bilingualism, code-switching and aging
- Aging bilinguals in Australia
- The twin hypotheses
- The attrition paradigm
- Longitudinal study
- An alternative explanation?
- Bilingualism or L2 attrition?
- Attitudinal and paradigm shift in research
- Concluding remarks
- References
- Language reversion versus general cognitive decline
- Language reversion studies
- Cognitive aging and the brain
- Cognitive aging and the bilingual brain
- Survivor theory
- Towards a new taxonomy of language change in elderly immigrants
- Conclusion
- References
- Part IV. DST
- A dynamic model of expert-novice co-adaptation during language learning and acquisition
- Dynamic systems theory in the context of socially mediated L2 acquisition
- Properties of complex dynamic systems
- A dynamic model of scaffolding in the context of L2-acquisition
- Social mediation as adaptation: The dynamics of novice-directed speech
- A conceptual and mathematical model of adaptation in learner- or child-directed speech
- L2 learning and the dynamics of concern-based action
- Conclusion
- References
- The dynamics of multilingualism: Levelt's speaking model revisited
- Levelt's model
- Adaptations to the model for bilingual production
- Adaptations necessary to the model for dynamic processing
- Conclusion
- References
- Epilogue: Twenty years of modeling bilingualism
- The language learning and teaching perspective
- The language attrition, maintenance and shift perspective
- The psycholinguistic perspective
- The language-policy perspective
- The measurement perspective
- An integrated perspective
- The dynamic systems perspective
- An attempt at analysing and integrating these perspectives
- The management perspective
- References
- Address for correspondence
- Index
- The series Studies in Bilingualism
