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Wei, Li, ed. The Bilingualism Reader. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 9780415355551.
Readings by Session
| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2-6 | Definitions, guiding principles and assumptions |
Chomsky, Noam. "A Review of B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior." Language 35, no. 1 (1959): 26–58.
Oller, D. Kimbrough, Rebecca E. Eilers, et al. "Development of precursors to speech infants exposed to two languages." Journal of Child Language 24, no. 2 (1997): 407–25. Kuhl, Patricia K. "Early language acquisition: Cracking the speech code." Nature Reviews Neuroscience 5, no. 11 (2004): 831–43. [BR] Volterra, Virginia, and Traute Taeschner. Chapter 13: The acquisition and development of language by bilingual children. [BR] Genesee, Fred. Chapter 14: Early bilingual language development: one language or two?
Nicoladis, Elena. "First clues to the existence of two input languages: Pragmatic and lexical differentiation in a bilingual child." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 1, no. 2 (1998): 105–16. Holowka, Siobhan, Francoise Brosseau- Lapré, et al. "Semantic and Conceptual Knowledge Underlying Bilingual Babies' First Signs and Words." Language Learning 52, no. 2 (2002): 205–62. |
| 7-10 | The bilingual and bilingual processing |
[BR] Meisel, Jürgen M. Chapter 15: Code-switching in young bilingual children: the acquisition of grammatical constraints. Mishina-Mori, Satomi. "Language differentiation of the two languages in early bilingual development: A case study of Japanese/English bilingual children." International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 40, no. 3 (2006): 211–33. [BR] Green, David W. Chapter 16: Control, activation, and resource: a framework and model for the control of speech in bilinguals. [BR] Grosjean, François. Chapter 19: The bilingual's language modes. [BR] Kroll, Judith F., and Annette M. B. de Groot. Chapter 18: Lexical and conceptual memory in the bilingual: Mapping form to meaning in two languages. |
| 11-12 | Grammar of code-switching |
[BR] Poplack, Shana. Chapter 10: Sometimes I'll start a sentence in Spanish y terimo en español: toward a typology of code-switching. [BR] Myers-Scotton, Carol, and Janice L. Jake. Chapter 11: Matching lemmas in a bilingual language competence and production model: evidence from intrasentential code-switching. [BR] Muysken, Pieter. Chapter 12: Code-switching and grammatical theory. |
| 13-14 | The bilingual brain |
[BR] Obler, Loraine K., Robert J. Zatorre, et al. Chapter 20: Cerebral lateralization in bilinguals: methodological issues. [BR] Paradis, Michel. Chapter 21: Language lateralization in bilinguals: enough already! [BR] Abutalebi, Jubin, Stefano F. Cappa, and Daniela Perani. Chapter 22: The bilingual brain as revealed by functional neuroimaging. Kim, Karl H. S., Norman R. Relkin, et al. "Distinct cortical areas associated with native and second languages." Nature 388, no. 6638 (1997): 171–4. |
| 15-19 | Sociolinguistic dimensions of bilingualism |
[BR] Ferguson, Charles A. Chapter 1: Diglossia. [BR] Fishman, Joshua A. Chapter 2: Bilingualism with and without diglossia; diglossia with and without bilingualism. [BR] ———. Chapter 3: Who speaks what language to whom and when? [BR] Blom, Jan-Petter, and John J. Gumperz. Chapter 4: Social meaning in linguistic structure: code-switching in Norway. [BR] Auer, Peter. Chapter 6: The pragmatics of code-switching: a sequential approach. [BR] Heller, Monica. Chapter 8: Code-switching and the politics of language. Arnold, Jennifer E., Sarah Brown-Scmidt, et al. "Children's use of gender and order-of-mention during pronoun comprehension." Language and Cognitive Processes 22, no. 4 (2007): 527–65. Siegal, Michael, Luca Surian, et al. "Bilingualism Accentuates Children's Conversational Understanding." PLoS One 5, no. 2 (2010): 1–8. |
| 20-25 | Cognitive benefits, bilingual education, language policies |
Yang, Sujin, Hwajin Yang, et al. "Early childhood bilingualism leads to advances in executive attention: Dissociating culture and language." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 14, no. 3 (2011): 412–22.
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