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The Adaptive Bilingual Mind

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At present, much of the research on bilingual cognition focuses on late second language learners of a small number of languages. In this fascinating book, Evangelia Adamou widens the net by integrating advances in the field of bilingualism with the study of endangered languages. Drawing on recent studies from Europe and Latin America, she demonstrates that experimental psycholinguistic methods can be successfully applied outside the lab and, conversely, how data from these understudied populations provide new insights into the adaptive capacities of the bilingual mind. Adamou shows how bilinguals manage competing conceptualizations of time and space, how their grammars and language mixing patterns adapt to cognitive constraints such as the need for simplification, and how language processing concurrently adapts to their complex bilingual experience. Combining statistical analyses with detailed linguistic and ethnographic information, this essential book will appeal to scholars of bilingualism, cognitive sciences, language endangerment, and language contact. Provides examples from a wide range of understudied languages and populations, making typologically rare data accessible to those working in bilingualism and cognitive sciences Illustrates how experimental methods from bilingual studies can be successfully applied in the field Combines quantitative results with qualitative ethnographic observations

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Evangelia Adamou. The Adaptive Bilingual Mind: Insights from Endangered Languages. Cambridge University Press, 2021, 9781108839518. ⟨halshs-03959511⟩
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