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Bilingualism Across the Lifespan examines the dynamics of bilingual language processing over time from the perspectives of neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. This multidisciplinary approach is fundamental to an understanding of how the bilingual's two (or more) language systems interact with each other and with other higher cognitive systems, neurological substrates, and social systems - a central theme of this volume. Contributors examine the nature of bilingualism during various phases of the lifecycle - childhood, adulthood, and old age - and in various health/pathology conditions. Topics range from code separation in the young bilingual child, across various types of language pathologies in adult bilinguals, to language choice problems in dementia. The volume thus offers a broad overview of current theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of bilingualism. It will interest and stimulate researchers and graduate students in the fields of linguistics, neuropsychology, and developmental psychology, as well as in foreign language teaching, speech pathology, educational psychology, and special education.

Bilingualism --- Language acquisition --- LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT --- Language Development. --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Development, Language --- Developments, Language --- Language Developments --- Acquisition --- Bilingualism. --- Language Development --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Bilinguisme --- Langage --- Language Acquisition --- Acquisition, Language --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Language acquisition.

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There have been many studies of children learning to talk, but perhaps none as comprehensive - in terms of the number of children involved, the period of continuous observation and the scope of the analysis - as the Bristol Study of Language Development. This is the first full-length volume to be written by members of the research team and it is a fundamental study of language development from infancy to primary school. It synthesises the research to date and discusses some key socio- and psycholinguistic themes with reference to transcribed excerpts from spontaneous conversations recorded by the team and to experimental data. The authors' central argument is that conversation provides the natural context of language development and that the child learns through exploring his world of interaction with other people. The quality of learning is seen to depend particularly on the strategies that adults employ to develop and extend children's contributions to interaction. This has important practical implications for the transition from home to school, and the second part of the book examines the differences and similarities between the talk that goes on in these two environments. The final chapter considers the development of literacy. The model of language development presented here will make stimulating and challenging reading for a wide range of sociologists, psychologists and educationalists as well as being of particular interest to linguists.

Language acquisition --- Psycholinguistics --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Acquisition --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Language acquisition.

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Lexicology. Semantics --- Psycholinguistics --- Acquisition du langage --- Acquisition of language --- Langage [Acquisition du ] --- Language acquisition --- Language development in children --- Lexique --- Stock of words --- Taalverwerving --- Vocabulaire --- Vocabulary --- Woordenschat --- Word books --- Words [Stock of ] --- Langage --- Acquisition --- --Acquisition --- --Vocabulaire --- --Language acquisition --- English language --- Words, Stock of --- Diction --- Lexicology --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children

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Most studies of gender differences in language use have been undertaken from exclusively either a sociocultural or a biological perspective. By contrast, this innovative volume places the analysis of language and gender in the context of a biocultural framework, examining both cultural and biological sources of gender differences in language, as well as the interaction between them. The first two parts of the volume on cultural variation in gender-differentiated language use, comparing Western English-speaking societies with societies elsewhere in the world. The essays are distinguished by an emphasis on the syntax, rather than style or strategy, of gender-differentiated forms of discourse but also often carry out the same forms differently through different choices of language form. These gender differences are shown to be socially organized, although the essays in Part I also raise the possibility that some cross-cultural similarities in the ways males and females differentially use language may be related to sex-based differences in physical and emotional makeup. Part III examines the relationship between language and the brain and shows that although there are differences between the ways males and females process language in the brain, these do not yield any differences in linguistic competence or language use. Taken as a whole, the essays reveal a great diversity in the cultural construction of gender through language and explicity show that while there is some evidence of the influence of biologically based sex differences on the language of women and men, the influence of culture is far greater, and gender differences in language use are better accounted for in terms of culture than in terms of biology. The collection will appeal widely to anthropologists, psychologists, linguists, and other concerned with the understanding of gender roles.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Sociolinguistics --- Children --- Language and languages --- #SBIB:309H518 --- 800:316 --- 800:316 Sociolinguistiek --- Sociolinguistiek --- Language and sex --- Sexism in language --- Biolinguistics --- Neurophysiology --- Language development in children --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Language --- Physiological aspects --- Sex differences --- Verbale communicatie: sociologie, antropologie, sociolinguistiek --- Vocabulary --- Language. --- Physiological aspects. --- Sex differences. --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology

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How do children acquire a Creole as their first language? This relatively underexplored question is the starting point for this first book of its kind; it also asks how first language acquisition of a Creole differs from that of a non-Creole language. Dany Adone reveals that in the absence of a conventional language model, Creole children acquire language and go beyond the input they receive. This study discusses the role of input, a hotly debated issue in the field of first language acquisition, and provides support for the nativist approach in the debate between nativism and input-based models. The Acquisition of Creole Languages will be essential reading for those in the fields of First Language Acquisition and Creole Studies. Adone takes an interdisciplinary approach, and uses insights from the acquisition of language in the visual modality, making this of great interest to those in the field of Sign Linguistics.

Creolan languages --- Creole dialects. --- Langues créoles --- Psycholinguistics --- Creole dialects --- Language acquisition --- Children --- Language --- Language acquisition. --- Langage --- Enfants --- Language. --- Acquisition --- Language development in children --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Language and languages --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Languages, Mixed --- Pidgin languages --- Vocabulary --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Children - Language