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Neuroscience of multilingualism
About: Neuroscience of multilingualism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4048 publications have been published within this topic receiving 123674 citations. The topic is also known as: neuroscience (multilingualism) & multilingualism neuroscience.
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01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: The individual and social nature of bilingualism: bilingualism - definitions and distinctions the measurement of bilingualness languages in society language revival and reversal the development of bilingualisms second language acquisition theories of second-language acquisition bilingualism and intelligence bilingualism.
Abstract: Part 1 The individual and social nature of bilingualism: bilingualism - definitions and distinctions the measurement of bilingualism languages in society language revival and reversal the development of bilingualism second language acquisition theories of second language acquisition bilingualism and intelligence bilingualism and thinking cognitive theories of bilingualism and the curriculum. Part 2 Bilingual education and bilingual classrooms: types of bilingual education the effectiveness of bilingual education minority language learning, underachievement and biliteracy second language learning Canadian immersion classrooms a model and a framework of bilingual education the politics of bilingualism multiculturalism and anti-racism.
3,533 citations
TL;DR: For the past 20 years or so, linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, and feminist thinkers have explored many aspects of this question, including sexist, heterosexist, and racist language; interruptions; graffiti and street remarks; names and forms of address; politeness; tag questions; directives; motherese; children's talk during play; schoolroom discourse; bilingualism and language contact; metaphors; shifts in word meanings; the language of science, religion, and war; silence and volubility; intonation; emotional expressiveness
Abstract: How do gender and language interact? For the past 20 years or so, linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, and feminist thinkers have explored many aspects of this question. There are now dozens of books and hundreds of course offerings on gender and language (14, 20, 41, 60, 67, 92, 98, 99), specialized articles are found in many journals and collections (15, 21, 59, 78, 87, 90, 109, 110, 115), and review articles continue to appear (8, 32, 47, 74, 76, 89). Topics treated include sexist, heterosexist, and racist language; interruptions; graffiti and street remarks; names and forms of address; politeness; tag questions; directives; motherese; children's talk during play; schoolroom discourse; bilingualism and language contact; metaphors; shifts in word meanings; the language of science, religion, and war; silence and volubility; intonation; emotional expressiveness; religious and political rhetoric; sociolinguistic variation; and language change. This list is far from comprehensive but its scatter suggests an absence of theoretical coherence in language and gender studies. Partial integration of the range of linguistic phenomena that seem sensitive to gender is sometimes attempted by trying to explain them all in terms of a
1,295 citations
TL;DR: Two views of bilingualism are presented--themonolingual or fractional view which holds that the bilingual is (or should be) two monolinguals in one person, and the bilingual or wholistic view which states that the coexistence of two languages in the bilingual has produced a unique and specific speaker-hearer.
1,169 citations
01 Oct 1979
1,152 citations
TL;DR: The authors studied the effect of bilingualism on children in the United States and found that bilingual children are more likely to become bilingual than non-bilingual children, and that bilingual speech and language speaking with a Monolingual speaking to a Bilingual increased bilingualism in children.
Abstract: 1. Bilingualism in the World The Extent of Bilingualism National Patterns of Bilingualism Language Policy and Linguistic Minorities The Origins of Bilingualism The Outcome of Bilingualism 2. Bilingualism in the United States Language Diversity and Bilingualism Aspects of the Life of Linguistic Minorities Bilingual Education Some Linguistic Minorities Language Maintenance and Language Shift 3. Bilingualism in Society Attitudes toward Language Groups and Languages Language Choice Code-Switching Bilingualism and Biculturalism 4. The Bilingual Child Becoming Bilingual The Acquisition of Two Languages Aspects of Bilingualism in the Child Education and the Bilingual Child The Effects of Bilingualism on the Child 5. The Bilingual Person Describing a Person's Bilingualism The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism The Bilingual Brain The Bilingual as a Person 6. Bilingual Speech and Language Speaking to a Monolingual Speaking to a Bilingual The Legacy of Bilingualism References Acknowledgments Index
1,011 citations