The Multilingual Lexicon

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cenoz, Jasone. (Editor), Hufeisen, Britta. (Editor), Jessner, Ulrike. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2003.
• Subjects: Education.; Applied linguistics.; Psycholinguistics.; Language and education.; Language Education.; Applied Linguistics.
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This volume is a response both to the increasing interest in multilingual phenomena and lexical issues in language learning. It is of interest to scholars and graduate students interested in bi- and multilingualism, second and multiple language acquisition, language processing and language learning,...

Table of Contents:

• Why Investigate the Multilingual Lexicon?
• Lexical Processing in Bilinguals and Multilinguals: The Word Selection Problem
• The Transfer-Appropriate-Processing Approach and the TrilingualỚ"s Organisation of the Lexicon
• The Nature of Cross-Linguistic Interaction in the Multilingual System
• Activation of Lemmas in the Multilingual Mental Lexicon and Transfer in Third Language Learning
• Parasitism as a Default Mechanism in L3 Vocabulary Acquisition
• Investigating the Role of Prior Foreign Language Knowledge: Translating from an Unknown into a Known Foreign Language
• The Role of Typology in the Organization of the Multilingual Lexicon
• A Strategy Model of Multilingual Learning
• Formulaic Utterances in the Multilingual Context
• Lexicon in the Brain: What Neurobiology Has to Say about Languages
• Perspectives on the Multilingual Lexicon: A Critical Synthesis.