Bilingualism

A framework for understanding the mental lexicon

Editors

Maya Libben

| University of British Columbia

Mira Goral

| City University of New York

Gary Libben

| Brock University

Hardbound – Available

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

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

Table of Contents

Author information	ix–xii
Prologue: Polyglossia as a personal journey Gonia Jarema	xiii–xviii
The dynamic lexicon: Complex words in bilingual minds Maya Libben, Mira Goral and Gary Libben	1–6
Languages without borders: Reframing the study of the bilingual mental lexicon Jyotsna Vaid and Renata F. I. Meuter	7–26
The bilingual lexicon: A window into language dynamics and cognition Judith F. Kroll	27–48
Mechanisms underlying word learning in second language acquisition Gabriela Meade and Ton Dijkstra	49–72
The bilingual mental lexicon: A dynamic knowledge system Ladan Ghazi-Saidi, Tanya Dash and Ana Inès Ansaldo	73–102
Non-selective language activation and bilingualism as the default mental lexicon Maya Libben	103–122
The influence of contextual cues on representations in the mental lexicon for bilinguals Kalinka Timmer, John G. Grundy and Ellen Bialystok	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	143–180
Lexical retrieval difficulty in bilingual speakers with and without pathology Mira Goral	181–196
Morphological integration and the bilingual lexicon Gary Libben, Mira Goral and Harald Baayen	197–216
Morphological processing in old-age bilinguals Harald Clahsen and Jana Reifegerste	217–248
Index	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)

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Cited by other publications

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. In The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism, ► pp. 297 ff.

Schwieter, John W. & Anat Prior

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

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Subjects

Linguistics

BIC Subject: CFDM – Bilingualism & multilingualism

BISAC Subject: LAN009040 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2017035846 | Marc record