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Bimodal bilingualism: Factors yet to be explored

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2015

GLADYS TANG
GLADYS TANG*
Affiliation:
Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Collaborative Innovation Centre for Language Ability, Jiangsu Normal University
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Address for correspondences: Professor Gladys Tang, Academic Building #2, Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Konggtang@cuhk.edu.hk
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Recent years have seen increasing research into bimodal bilingualism from a variety of paradigms such as bilingual acquisition, language processing, neural systems, and cognitive skills, with the underlying assumption that successful bimodal bilingualism entails the knowledge representations and processing of two grammars each of which via a distinct modality, auditory-oral versus visual-gestural. As such, it opens up an arena of cutting-edge research enabling comparisons of the linguistic and cognitive effects of monolingualism versus bilingualism, as well as unimodal bilingualism versus bimodal bilingualism.

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , March 2016 , pp. 259 - 260
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