Multilingual Cognition and Language Use

Processing and typological perspectives

Editors

Luna Filipović | University of East Anglia

Martin Pütz | University of Koblenz-Landau

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This volume provides a multifaceted view of certain key themes in multilingualism research today and offers future directions for this research area in the context of the multilingual development of individuals and societies. The selection of studied languages is eclectic (e.g. Amondawa, Cantonese, Bulgarian, Dene, Dutch, Eipo, Frisian, German, Mandarin Chinese, Māori, Russian, Spanish, and Yukatek, among others), they are typologically diverse, and they are contrasted from a variety of perspectives, such as cognitive development, aging, acquisition, grammatical and lexical processing, and memory. This collection also illustrates novel insights into the linguistic relativity debate that multilingual studies can offer, such as new and revealing perspectives on some well-known topics (e.g. colour categorisation or language transfer). The critical and comprehensive discussions of theoretical and methodological considerations presented in this volume are fundamental for numerous current, future, empirical and interdisciplinary studies of linguistic diversity, linguistic typology, and multilingual processing.

[Human Cognitive Processing, 44] 2014. x, 337 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.44

Table of Contents

Editors and contributors | pp. vii–viii

Foreword: Multilingual cognition and language use

Luna Filipović and Martin Pütz | pp. ix–x

Introduction: Understanding multilingualism: Interdisciplinary trends – past, present, and future

Luna Filipović and Martin Pütz | pp. 1–14

Part I. Multilingual contrasts: Interfaces and integrations

Methodological approaches in the study of linguistic relativity: Corpus method and cognitive theory

John A. Lucy | pp. 17–44

Frequency of use and basic vocabulary

Andreea S. Calude and Mark Pagel | pp. 45–72

A contrastive study of colour terms in French and German causal constructions

Sabine De Knop | pp. 73–96

Compound verbs in English and Bulgarian and the relativity debate

Alexandra Bagasheva | pp. 97–120

HERE, NEAR, FAR: Spatial conceptualisation and cognition in a cross-linguistic perspective (English vs. Russian)

Anna Gladkova | pp. 121–150

Cognitive maps of landmark orientation

Martin Thiering | pp. 151–182

Is space-time metaphorical mapping universal? Time for a cultural turn

Chris Sinha | pp. 183–202

Part II. Bilingual processing: Language representation and language use

Efficiency of the bilingual mind: Clues from processing, memory, and second language acquisition studies

Luna Filipović | pp. 205–228

About phonological, grammatical, and semantic accents in bilinguals’ language use and their cause

Annette M.B. de Groot | pp. 229–262

Aging and bilingual processing: Age-related and individual differences in groups of early bilingual Frisians

Nienke Houtzager, Wander Lowie and Kees de Bot | pp. 263–286

L1-based prototypicality effects in L2 vocabulary learning

Xiaoyan Xia and Janny Leung | pp. 287–308

Finding a wooden jandal in the jandal wood: The role of bilingualism for the interpretation of headedness in novel English compounds

Alexander Onysko and Marta Degani | pp. 309–332

Name index | p. 333

Subject index | pp. 335–336

Language index | p. 337

“This volume moves forward the study of multilingualism by gathering research studies richly informed by language typology, cognitive linguistics, and psycholinguistics to contrast usage, structure, and cognition in multiple languages, and to develop experimental studies of language representation and processing in the multilingual mind. This ground-breaking synthesis demonstrates the necessity of interdisciplinarity, it illustrates the insights to be gleaned from such collaborations, and it sets the stage for a new Applied Language Typology. These chapters lead the development of Cognitive Linguistics towards something more interesting still, Cognitive Multilinguistics.”

Nick Ellis, University of Michigan

“Congratulations to Luna Filipović and Martin Pütz for putting together this timely and comprehensive volume on multilingualism. One cannot understand multilingualism or bilingualism without considering a range of perspectives, and this is the strength of this interdisciplinary volume. We learn about multilingualism through the lens of typological proximity, processing, and storage. We are introduced to questions of acquisition and aging, both central to multilingualism, but not always dealt with together. The wide range of topics, the inclusion of languages not commonly dealt with (how many studies are there with Yukatek as an object of inquiry?), and the diverse disciplinary perspectives make this book a must read for students and scholars of multilingualism and bilingualism.”

Susan Gass, Michigan State University

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2016. Angebote zur Rezension. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik 2016:64 ► pp. 167 ff.

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