Book description
The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism presents a comprehensive
introduction to the foundations of bilingualism, covering language
processing, language acquisition, cognition and the bilingual brain.
- This thorough introduction to the psycholinguistics of
bilingualism is accessible to non-specialists with little previous
exposure to the field
- Introduces students to the methodological approaches currently
employed in the field, including observation, experimentation,
verbal and computational modelling, and brain imaging
- Examines spoken and written language processing, simultaneous and
successive language acquisition, bilingual memory and cognitive
effects, and neurolinguistic and neuro-computational models of the
bilingual brain
- Written in an accessible style by two of the field's leading
researchers, together with contributions from
internationally-renowned scholars
- Featuring chapter-by-chapter research questions, this is an
essential resource for those seeking insights into the bilingual
mind and our current knowledge of the cognitive basis of bilingualism
François Grosjean
is Professor Emeritus of Psycholinguistics at Neuchâtel University,
Switzerland. His many publications on bilingualism include three
books:
Life with Two Languages: An Introduction to Bilingualism
(1982),
Studying Bilinguals
(2008), and
Bilingual: Life and Reality
(2010). The latter was selected as a
Choice
Outstanding Academic Title. He is a Founding Editor of the journal
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
and was its first Coordinating Editor.
Ping Li is Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and
Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University.
His books include The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics:
Volume 1, Chinese (co-edited with L-H. Tan, E. Bates, and O.
Tzeng, 2006), and The Expression of Time (co-edited with W.
Klein, 2009). He is Editor of the journal Bilingualism: Language
and Cognition, and is on the Editorial Board of four other
prominent journals.
