The cognitive neuroscience of second language acquisition
Marianne Gullberg and Peter Indefrey, editors
Malden, MA
Blackwell Pub.,
c2006
vi, 348 p. : ill. )some col.( ; 23 cm.
The Language Learning-Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics cognitive neuroscience series
"Result of a conference held at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in September 2005"--Foreword.
Age and second language acquisition and processing : a selective overview / David Birdsong -- L2 acquisition, age, and generativist reasoning : commentary on Birdsong / Peter Coopmans -- Development of the human cortex and the concept of "critical" or "sensitive" periods / H.B.M. Uylings -- What we cannot learn from neuroanatomy about language learning and language processing : commentary on Uylings / Peter Hagoort -- Convergence, degeneracy, and control / David W. Green, Jenny Crinion, and Cathy J. Price -- The plastic bilingual brain : synaptic pruning or growth? Commentary on Green et al. / Kees de Bot -- Executive control in bilingual language processing / A. Rodriguez-Fornells, R. de Diego Balaguer, and T.F. Meunte -- On language and the brain, or on )psycho(linguists and neuroscientists? Commentary on Rodriguez-Fornells et al. / Ton Dijkstra and Walter Van Heuven --
Novice learners, longitudinal designs, and event-related potentials : a means for exploring the neurocognition of second language processing / Lee Osterhout ... ]et al.[ -- Strategies for longitudinal neurophysiology : commentary on Osterhout et al. / Doug Davidson -- L2 in a nutshell : the investigation of second language processing in the miniature language model / Jutta L. Mueller -- Cracking the nutshell differently : commentary on Mueller / Monique J.A. Lamers -- A meta-analysis of hemodynamic studies on first and second language processing : which suggested differences can we trust and what do they mean? / Peter Indefrey -- When does the neurological basis of first and second language processing differ? Commentary on Indefrey / Laurie A. Stowe -- Summing up : some themes in the cognitive neuroscience of second language acquisition / John H. Schumann.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Cognitive neuroscience^aCongresses
Second language acquisition^aCongresses
Education, Bilingual^aCongresses
Language Development^aCongresses
Neurophysiology^aCongresses
Brain^aphysiology--Congresses
Learning^aphysiology--Congresses
Multilingualism^aCongresses
Psycholinguistics^aCongresses
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