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Summary
Summary
This volume provides a state-of-the art overview of what we know about the cognitive and neurobiological aspects of the adult capacity for language learning. Brings together studies from several fields that examine learning from multiple perspectives using various methods Covers linguistic domains ranging from phonology and semantics to morphosyntax Will inform and extend further studies of language learning in multiple disciplines
Author Notes
Marianne Gullberg is Professor of Psycholinguistics and Director of the Humanities Lab at Lund University, Sweden. With Peter Indefrey she previously headed the research project "The Dynamics of Multilingual Processing" at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. Her research focuses on the earliest stages of adult second language acquisition and on the advanced or bilingual stage, examining lexical semantics, cross-linguistic (bi-directional) influences, code-switching, and the production and comprehension of gestures. She has published in a range of journals, including Language Learning , Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , and Brain and Language .
Peter Indefrey is Professor of Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany, and research fellow at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging in Nijmegen. With Marianne Gullberg he previously headed the research project "The Dynamics of Multilingual Processing" at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. His research is on first and second language processing and their neural correlates. Some of his favorite topics are syntactic and morphological processing, word production, reading, and the development of language processing in L2 learners. He has published in a variety of journals, including Cognition , PNAS , Neuroimage , Journal of Experimental Psychology , and Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience .
Table of Contents
| 1 The Earliest Stages of Language Learning: IntroductionPeter Indefrey and Marianne Gullberg |
| 2 Adult Language Learning after Minimal Exposure to an Unknown Natural LanguageMarianne Gullberg and Leah Roberts and Christine Dimroth and Kim Veroude and Peter Indefrey |
| 3 Neurocognition of New Word Learning in the Native Tongue: Lessons from the Ancient Farming Equipment ParadigmMatti Laine and Riitta Salmelin |
| 4 A Complementary Systems Account of Word Learning in L1 and L2Shane Lindsay and M. Gareth Gaskell |
| 5 The Role of Linguistic Input in the First Hours of Adult Language LearningRebekah Rast |
| 6 Learned Attention Effects in Second Language Acquisition (L2A) of Temporal Reference in Latin and Spanish: The First Hour and the Next Eight SemestersNick C. Ellis and Nuria Sagarra |
| 7 Short-term Grammatical Plasticity in Adult Language LearnersDouglas J. Davidson |
| 8 Brain Potentials Reveal Discrete Stages of L2 Grammatical LearninJudith McLaughlin and Darren Tanner and Ilona Pitkänen and Cheryl Frenck-Mestre and Kayo Inoue and Geoffrey Valentine and Lee Osterhout |
| 9 Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms Sustaining Rule Learning from SpeechRuth de Diego-Balaguer and Diana Lopez-Barroso |
| 10 Artificial Language Learning in Adults and ChildrenVasiliki Folia and Julia Uddén and Meinou de Vries and Christian Forkstam and Karl Magnus Petersson |
| 11 Initial Incidental Acquisition of Word Order Regularities: Is It Just Sequence Learning?John N. Williams |
| 12 Implicit Artificial Grammar, and Incidental Natural Second Language Learning: How Comparable Are They?Peter Robinson |
| Author Index |
| Subject Index |
