Advances in the Study of Bilingualism

Enlli Môn Thomas is a Senior Lecturer in Education and Ineke Mennen a Professor of Bilingualism and Linguistics at Bangor University. They are both board members of the ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice and have published widely in their respective areas, namely bilingual language development and use (Thomas) and bilingual speech (Mennen).

• ContributorsForewordIntroduction: Advances in the Study of Bilingualism - Enlli Môn Thomas and Ineke MennenPart 1: Bilingual Speech1 Speech Learning in Bilinguals: Consonant Cluster Acquisition - Robert Mayr, Danna Jones and Ineke Mennen2 Maturational Constraints in Bilingual Speech - Esther de Leeuw Part 2: Bilingual Language Development3 Cross-linguistic Influence and Patterns of Acquisition - Enlli Môn Thomas, Katja F. Cantone, Susanne Davies and Anna Shadrova4 Bilingual Construction of Two Systems - Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Rocío Pérez-Tattam, Hans Stadthagen-González and Enlli Môn ThomasPart 3: Bilingual Language Use5 Building Bilingual Corpora - Margaret Deuchar, Peredur Davies, Jon Russell Herring, M. Carmen Parafita Couto and Diana Carter6 Factors Influencing Code-Switching - M. Carmen Parafita Couto, Peredur Davies, Diana Carter and Margaret DeucharPart 4: Bilingual Education7 Language Arrangements within Bilingual Education - Bryn Jones and W. Gwyn Lewis 8 Bilingualism in Higher Education - W. Gwyn Lewis and Hunydd AndrewsPart 5: The Bilingual Brain9 Language Selection During Speech Production in Bilingual Speakers - Noriko Hoshino and Guillaume Thierry10 Juggling Two Grammars - Eirini Sanoudaki and Guillaume Thierry References

The many facets of bilingualism are explored in this book with unprecedented breadth and depth. Through the prism of multidisciplinary research the volume paints a vivid picture of bilingualism throughout the lifespan. This is an outstanding state-of-the-art contribution to our knowledge of the field in the 21st century.