Bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world linguistic and cognitive perspectives
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. What does it mean to be bilingual?; 2. Bilingual brains, bilingual minds; 3. Bilingual development and bilingual outcomes; Conclusions.
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Cambridge
Cambridge Univ. Press
2015
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| Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. What does it mean to be bilingual?; 2. Bilingual brains, bilingual minds; 3. Bilingual development and bilingual outcomes; Conclusions. "Bilingualism has given rise to significant changes in Spanish-speaking countries. In the US, the increasing importance of Spanish has engendered an English-only movement; in Peru, contact between Spanish and Quechua has brought about language change; and in Iberia, speakers of Basque, Galician and Catalan have made their languages a compulsory part of school curricula and local government. This book provides an introduction to bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world, looking at topics such as language contact, bilingual societies, bilingualism in schools, code-switching, language transfer, the emergence of new varieties of Spanish, and language choice - and how all of these phenomena affect the linguistic and cognitive development of the speaker. Using examples and case studies drawn primarily from Spanish/English bilinguals in the US, Spanish/Quechua bilinguals in Peru and Spanish/Basque bilinguals in Spain, it provides diverse perspectives on the experience of being bilingual in distinct cultural, political and socioeconomic contexts"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index (p. 188-224) |
| Beschreibung: | XIV, 234 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9780521115537 978-0-521-11553-7 9780521132978 978-0-521-13297-8 |