Language and Cognition in Bilinguals and Multilinguals by Ann... - 9781138974241

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Language and Cognition in Bilinguals and MultilingualsAn Introduction\nAuthor(s): Annette M.B. de Groot\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Psychology Press Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781138974241, 978-1138974241\nSynopsis\nPsycholinguistics the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language had a strong monolingual orientation during the first four decades following its emergence around 1950. The awareness that a large part of mankind speaks more than one language that this may impact both on the way each individual language is used and on the thought processes of bilinguals and multilinguals, and that, consequently, our theories on human linguistic ability and its role in non-linguistic cognition are incomplete and, perhaps, false has led to a steep growth of studies on bilingualism and multilingualism since around 1995.\n\nThis textbook introdu.