The Adaptive Bilingual Mind
Insights from Endangered Languages
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- Author: Evangelia Adamou, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
- Date Published: March 2024
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108813273
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At present, much of the research on bilingual cognition focuses on late second language learners of a small number of languages. In this fascinating book, Evangelia Adamou widens the net by integrating advances in the field of bilingualism with the study of endangered languages. Drawing on recent studies from Europe and Latin America, she demonstrates that experimental psycholinguistic methods can be successfully applied outside the lab and, conversely, how data from these understudied populations provide new insights into the adaptive capacities of the bilingual mind. Adamou shows how bilinguals manage competing conceptualizations of time and space, how their grammars and language mixing patterns adapt to cognitive constraints such as the need for simplification, and how language processing concurrently adapts to their complex bilingual experience. Combining statistical analyses with detailed linguistic and ethnographic information, this essential book will appeal to scholars of bilingualism, cognitive sciences, language endangerment, and language contact.
Read more- Provides examples from a wide range of understudied languages and populations, making typologically rare data accessible to those working in bilingualism and cognitive sciences
- Illustrates how experimental methods from bilingual studies can be successfully applied in the field
- Combines quantitative results with qualitative ethnographic observations
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'… Adamou's book is a timely and welcome monograph that should be viewed as an encouragement to conduct experimental studies when applicable and necessary with endangered language speakers (including HL-speakers) to complement offline research efforts.' Michael T. Putnam, Heritage Language Journal
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- Date Published: March 2024
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108813273
- length: 219 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.325kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction and methods
1. Theoretical background
2. Methods: disentangling language contact, bilingualism, and attrition
3. The structure of this book
Part I. Do Bilinguals Maintain Language-specific Conceptualizations:
4. State of the art
5. Space
6. Time
Part II. Are Bilinguals Confronted with High Cognitive Costs:
7. State of the art
8. Cognitive costs in atypical forms of codeswitching
9. Reduction of alternative in language
Part III. Conclusions:
10. General discussion and conclusions
Glossary
Appendix.
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