International Journal of Bilingualism articles from March 2005

International Journal of Bilingualism archives from March 2005

Cognitive approaches to bilingualism: introduction to the special issue.
March 1, 2005... Acknowledgment I will begin this introduction by thanking Julia L. Coryell (State University of New York at Albany) for her hard and dedicated work in assisting me in editing and shaping the final form of this special issue. Her comments...

Universal human concepts as a tool for exploring bilingual lives.
March 1, 2005... Abstract Embodied within every language is a unique universe of meaning. This raises some key questions about the conceptual universes of bilingual persons: What meanings does a bilingual person live with? How does such a person (in...

A cognitive view of the bilingual lexicon: reading and speaking words in two languages.
March 1, 2005... Abstract In this paper we review recent research on experimental psycholinguistic approaches to the bilingual lexicon. The focus in this work is to understand how it is that lexical access in both comprehension and production is...

Lexical choice as a reflection of conceptual fluency.
March 1, 2005... Abstract This pilot study is based on the assumption that the selection of lexical items reveals the level of conceptual fluency in the target language. This assumption is supported by the model of the Dual Language System of Kecskes and...

Extending the competition model.
March 1, 2005... Abstract This paper presents an extended formulation of the Competition Model. The extended model, called the Unified Competition Model, is designed to account for a larger range of phenomena in first and second language acquisition,...

Child codeswitching and adult content contrasts.
March 1, 2005... Abstract This paper discusses links between the conditions of developing child bilingualism and the adult outcomes in semiotic contrast in elicited speech and codeswitching. Analysis of interaction of children raised as bilinguals...

Bilingualism across the lifespan: the rise and fall of inhibitory control.
March 1, 2005... Abstract Previous research has shown that bilingual children perform better than comparable monolinguals on tasks requiring control of attention to inhibit misleading information. The present paper reports a series of studies that traces...