TY - BOOK ID - 77936739 TI - Modeling bilingualism from structure to chaos AU - De Bot, Kees AU - Schmid, Monika S AU - Lowie, Wander PY - 2011 SN - 1283051435 9786613051431 9027287007 9789027287007 9781283051439 9789027241825 9027241821 6613051438 PB - Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co. DB - UniCat KW - Bilingualism. KW - Second language acquisition. KW - Second language learning KW - Language acquisition KW - Language and languages KW - Languages in contact KW - Multilingualism KW - Bilingualism KW - Second language acquisition UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77936739 AB - This volume presents an overview of changes in paradigms, perspectives and contexts of research into bilingual development over the past two decades. During this time, the focus of perspective has changed. In the early 1990s, most investigations still proceeded from models that assumed modular components, hierarchical relationships and linear processes, and investigated what were perceived to be the 'typical' contexts of bilingual development (sequential, usually instructed bilingualism, where the second language would remain the weaker one and the speakers investigated were typically young adults). More recently it has been proposed that such models may not be complex enough to accommodate bilingual development in all its facets and settings (bimodal bilingualism, attrition, aging). This change has recently culminated in applications of chaos theory to Applied Linguistics, and in the widening range of situations of language acquisition, learning and deterioration which have been investigated. ER -