Overview

Even though more than half the world's population is bilingual, the study of bilinguals has lagged behind that of monolinguals. With this book, which draws on twenty-five years of the author's research, François Grosjean contributes significantly to redressing the balance. The volume covers four areas of research: the definition and characterization of the bilingual person, the perception and production of spoken language by bilinguals, the sign-oral bilingualism of the Deaf, and methodological and conceptual issues in research on bilingualism. While the author takes a largely psycholinguistic approach, his acute linguistic and sociolinguistic awareness is evident throughout and especially so in his reflections on what it means to be bilingual and bicultural. The book also defends increased co-operation among researchers in connecting fields such as the language sciences and the neurosciences.

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Author:   François Grosjean (, Neuchâtel University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.575kg
ISBN:  

9780199281299

ISBN 10:   0199281297
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   21 February 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction Part I The Bilingual Person 2: A Wholistic View of Bilingualism 3: The Complementarity Principle and Language Restructuring Part II Language Mode 4: The Bilingual's Language Modes 5: Manipulating Language Mode Part III The Base-Language Effect 6: The Base-Language Effect in Speech Perception 7: Base-Language Effect and Categorical Perception 8: Is There a Base-Language Effect in Speech Production? Part IV Spoken Word Recognition in Bilinguals 9: The Gender Marking Effect in Bilinguals 10: The Role of Guest Word Properties 11: The Léwy and Grosjean BIMOLA Model Part V Biculturalism, Bilingualism, and Deafness 12: The Bicultural Person: A Short Introduction 13: The Bilingualism and Biculturalism of the Deaf Part VI Methodological Issues in Bilingualism Research 14: Methodological and Conceptual Issues 15: Imaging Bilinguals

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This is a well-structured and well-written book. Ineke Mennen, Journal of Linguistics

This is a well-structured and well-written book. * Ineke Mennen, Journal of Linguistics *

Author Information

François Grosjean is Emeritus Professor of Psycholinguistics, Neuchâtel University, Switzerland. He is the author of the much acclaimed Life with Two Languages: An Introduction to Bilingualism (Harvard UP, 1982). In 1997 he founded the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (CUP), which he edited until 2002. In addition to bilingualism, his research focuses on speech perception, comprehension, and production.

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