Psycholinguistics–the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge
structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language–had a …

The past fifteen years have witnessed an increasing interest in the cognitive study of the
bilingual. A major reason why psychologists, psycholinguists, applied linguists …

How is language acquired when infants are exposed to multiple language input from birth
and when adults are required to learn a second language after early childhood? How do …

Although variation in the ways individuals process language has long been a topic of
interest and discussion in the psycholinguistic literature, only recently have studies of …

The theory and research reported in the preceding chapters of this volume describe a variety
of aspects of cognitive and linguistic processing by bilingual children. Bilingual children of …

This collection of 33 papers represents the most current thinking andresearch on the study of
cognitive processing in bilingual individuals. Thecontributors include well-known figures in …

This book is a collection of papers that explore the ways in which bilingual children cope
with two language systems. The papers address issues in linguistics, psychology and …

" Bilingualism in Development explores language and cognitive development in bilingual
children, focusing on the preschool years. It begins by defining what we mean by …

In the past decade there has been increasing interest on the part of cognitive psychologists
and psycholinguists in characterizing the cognitive processes that support second language …

Scholars and educators have studied the effects of bilingualism on cognitive and linguistic
abilities for almost a century. The question has generally focused on how a child with more …