The Study of Bilingual Language Processing

This book offers a detailed account of the issues, models, and outcomes of research into the cognition of bilingualism. It begins with a chapter identifying the most important characteristics of this research, and then explores key topics including lexico-semantic representation, cross-language priming, selective lexical access, and code-switching.

Nan Jiang is Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland. His research interests include lexical representation and development in a second language, morphosyntactic processing, semantic development, and bilingual language processing. His publications include Conducting Reaction Time Research in Second Language Studies (Routledge, 2012) and Second Language Processing: An Introduction (Routledge, 2018), as well as numerous journal articles in the fields of second language acquisition, applied linguistics, and psycholinguistics.

- Preface - List of figures and tables - List of abbreviations - 1: Introducing bilingual processing research - 2: Lexico-semantic organization in bilinguals - 3: Cross-language priming - 4: Selectivity in bilingual lexical access - 5: Language switch and control in bilinguals - 6: Bilingualism beyond lexical representation and processing - References - Index