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Muysken, Pieter – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
This paper sketches a comprehensive framework for modeling and interpreting language contact phenomena, with speakers' bilingual strategies in specific scenarios of language contact as its point of departure. Bilingual strategies are conditioned by social factors, processing constraints of speakers' bilingual competence, and perceived…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Social Influences, Native Language, Language Processing
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Pavlenko, Aneta – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to draw on recent studies of bilingualism and emotions to argue for three types of modifications to the current models of the bilingual lexicon. The first modification involves word categories: I will show that emotion words need to be considered as a separate class of words in the mental lexicon, represented and…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Models
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Myers-Scotton, Carol – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2006
This contribution discusses findings and hypotheses from empirical data of naturally-occurring codeswitching. The discussion is framed by some comparisons of the approaches of contact linguists and psycholinguists to bilingual production data. However, it emphasizes the relevance of naturally-occurring codeswitching to the theoretical questions…
Descriptors: Grammar, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Comparative Analysis
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Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
The present article examines one property of bilingual speech--convergence--and strives towards explanatory depth by attending to the insights of the antecedent research in formal linguistics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. In particular, the paper adopts as a point of departure (and further substantiates) the argument that convergence…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Monolingualism
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Otheguy, Ricardo – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
In an important theoretical contribution to our understanding of language contact, Toribio elaborates on the familiar generalization, best known from the work of Silva-Corvalan, that contact varieties resemble monolingual lects of the same language in overall grammar, but differ with regard to (a) the selection of structures and (b) the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Semantics, Monolingualism, Bilingualism