Description
This book is unique because it explores the multilingual lexicon by providing insights from research studies conducted in psycholinguistics, applied linguistics and neurolinguistics. It goes beyond the use of two languages and thus concentrates on a new and developing area in linguistic research. The different perspectives provide a link to the mainstream work on the lexicon and vocabulary acquisition and will stimulate further debate in these areas and in the study of multilingualism. Acknowledgements. Contributors. 1. Why investigate the multilingual lexicon? J. Cenoz, B. Hufeisen 3. The transfer-appropriate-processing approach and the trilingual’s organisation of the lexicon; U. Schnpflug. 4. The nature of cross-linguistic interaction in the multilingual system; U. Jessner. 5. Activation of lemmas in the multilingual mental lexicon and transfer in third language learning; Longxing Wei. 6. Parasitism as a default mechanism in L3 vocabulary acquisition; C.J. Hall, P. Ecke. 7. Investigating the role of prior foreign language knowledge; M. Gibson, B. Hufeisen. 8. The role of typology in the organization of the multilingual lexicon; J. Cenoz. 9. A strategy model of multilingual learning; J. Mller-Lanc. 10. Formulaic utterances in the multilingual context; C. Spttl, M. McCarthy. 11. Lexicon in the brain: what neurobiology has to say about languages; R. Franceschini, D. Zappatore, C. Nitsch. 12. Perspectives on the multilingual lexicon: a critical synthesis; D. Singleton. References. Index.
