Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
  1. Home
  2. Books
  3. The Adaptive Bilingual Mind
  • Cited by 12
      • Show more authors
      • You may already have access via personal or institutional login
    • Select format
    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 April 2021
      15 April 2021
      ISBN:
      9781108884266
      9781108839518
      9781108813273
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108884266
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 220 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.33kg, 220 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, Language and Linguistics
    You may already have access via personal or institutional login
    • Selected: Digital
    Add to cart View cart Buy from Cambridge.org
    Subjects:
    Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, Language and Linguistics
    Information

    Book description

    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.

    Reviews

    ‘… 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 Source: Heritage Language Journal

    Refine List

    Actions for selected content:

    Select all | Deselect all
    • View selected items
    • Export citations
    • Download PDF (zip)
    • Save to Kindle
    • Save to Dropbox
    • Save to Google Drive

    Save Search

    You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

    Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
    Cancel
    ×

    Contents

    Contents
    References

    Metrics

    Altmetric attention score

    Full text views

    Total number of HTML views: 0
    Total number of PDF views: 0 *
    Loading metrics...

    Book summary page views

    Total views: 0 *
    Loading metrics...

    * Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

    Usage data cannot currently be displayed.

    Accessibility standard: Unknown

    Why this information is here

    This section outlines the accessibility features of this content - including support for screen readers, full keyboard navigation and high-contrast display options. This may not be relevant for you.

    Accessibility Information

    Accessibility compliance for the PDF of this book is currently unknown and may be updated in the future.