The cognitive neuroscience of second language acquisition
First Statement of Responsibility
Marianne Gullberg and Peter Indefrey, editors
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Malden, MA
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Blackwell Pub.,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2006
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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vi, 348 p. : ill. )some col.( ; 23 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
The Language Learning-Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics cognitive neuroscience series
GENERAL NOTES PERTAINING TO DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION
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"Result of a conference held at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in September 2005"--Foreword.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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 --
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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.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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Cognitive neuroscience^aCongresses
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Second language acquisition^aCongresses
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Education, Bilingual^aCongresses
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Language Development^aCongresses
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Neurophysiology^aCongresses
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Brain^aphysiology--Congresses
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Learning^aphysiology--Congresses
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Multilingualism^aCongresses
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Psycholinguistics^aCongresses
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QP
Classification Record Number
360
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5
Book number
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C64
2006
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
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Language Learning-Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics