The Listening Bilingual

<p><b>A vital resource on speech and language processing in bilingual adults and children</b></p> <p><i>The Listening Bilingual</i> brings together in one volume the various components of spoken language processing in bilingual adults, infants and children.</p> <p>The book includes a review of speech perception and word recognition; syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of speech processing; the perception and comprehension of bilingual mixed speech (code-switches, borrowings and interferences); and the assessment of bilingual speech perception and comprehension in adults and children in the clinical context.</p> <p>The two main authors as well as selected guest authors, Mark Antoniou, Theres Grüter, Robert J. Hartsuiker, Elizabeth D. Peña and Lisa M. Bedore, and Lu-Feng Shi, introduce the various approaches used in the study of spoken language perception and comprehension in bilingual individuals. The authors focus on experimentation</p> <p>that involves both well-established tasks and newer tasks, as well as techniques used in brain imaging.</p> <p>This important resource:</p> <ul> <li>Is the first of its kind to concentrate specifically on spoken language processing in bilingual adults and children.</li> <li>Offers a unique text that covers both fundamental and applied research in bilinguals.</li> <li>Covers a range of topics including speech perception, spoken word recognition, higher level processing, code-switching, and assessment.</li> <li>Presents information on the assessment of bilingual children’s language development</li> </ul> <p>Written for advanced undergraduate students in linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, and speech/language pathology as well as researchers, <i>The Listening Bilingual</i> offers a state-of-the-art review of the recent developments and approaches in speech and language processing in bilingual people of all ages.</p>