International Journal of Bilingualism articles from September 2008

International Journal of Bilingualism archives from September 2008

Phonological acquisition in Malta: a bilingual language learning context.
September 1, 2008... Abstract A total of 241 Maltese children aged 2;0-6;0 years, drawn randomly from the public registry of births, were assessed on a picture naming task to evaluate phone articulation, phonology and consistency of word production. Children...

Exceptional bilingualism.
September 1, 2008... Abstract New proposals for rethinking the concept of modularity have prompted researchers to increasingly consider the findings from outside their respective fields. A recent discussion by Marcus (2006) calls for such a multidisciplinary...

Speaking Hebrew with an accent: empathic capacity or other nonpersonal factors.
September 1, 2008... Abstract The study examines a hypothesis that the degree of accent in L2 is related to a measure of ego permeability. Native Hebrew speakers, native Russian-speaking immigrants, and Arabic-speaking Israeli natives participated. All were...

The time cost of mixed-language processing: an investigation.
September 1, 2008... Abstract Does it take bilinguals longer to process mixed-language information? This study explores, in two reaction time experiments, the hypothesis that there is only a cost to language switching when the switch is unexpected in the...

Ulla Connor, Ed Nagelhout, William V. Rozycki (Eds.), Contrastive rhetoric: Reaching to intercultural rhetoric.
September 1, 2008... Ulla Connor, Ed Nagelhout, William V. Rozycki (Eds.), Contrastive rhetoric: Reaching to intercultural rhetoric. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008. 324 pp. This volume, edited by Ulla Connor, Ed Nagelhout, and William Rozycki, reviews the...

Vally Lytra, Play frames and social identities.
September 1, 2008... Vally Lytra, Play frames and social identities. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007. 300 pp. In Play frames and social identities, Vally Lytra presents a truly fascinating ethnographic study of a multilingual group of children in a Greek...