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Synopsis
A multidisciplinary approach to the study of bilingualism examines the dynamics of bilingual language processing from the perspectives of neurolingustics, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics.
Table of Contents
Preface; 1. Bilingualism across the lifespan: an introduction Kenneth Hyltenstam and Loraine K. Obler; 2. Early differentiation of languages in bilingual children Jürgen M. Meisel; 3. Variation in children's ability to learn second languages Margaret Humes-Bartlo; 4. Idiomaticity as an indicator of second language proficiency Carlos A. Yorio; 5. Prefabs, patterns and rules in interaction? formulaic speech in adult learners' L2 Swedish Maria Bolander; 6. The imperfect conditional Eric Kellerman; 7. Spanish, Japanese and Chinese speakers' acquisition of English relative clauses: new evidence for the head-direction parameter Suzanne Flynn; 8. Distinguishing language contact phenomena: evidence from Finnish-English bilingualism Shana Poplack, Susan Wheeler and Anneli Westwood; 9. The boustrophedal brain: laterality and dyslexia in bi-directional readers Loraine K. Obler; 10. Deterioration and creativity in childhood bilingualism Herbert Seliger; 11. Crosslinguistic influence in language loss Michael A. Sharwood Smith; 12. Bilingualism in Alzheimer's dementia: two case studies Kenneth Hyltenstam and Christopher Stroud; 13. Language processing in the bilingual: evidence from language mixing Ellen Perecman; Index.