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SCHREUDER, Robert and Bert
WELTENS (eds.)
In the study of bilingualism,
the lexical level of language is of prime importance because, in practical
terms, vocabulary acquisition is an essential prerequisite for the development
of skill in language use; from a theoretical point of view, the mental
lexicon, as a bridge between form and meaning, plays a crucial role in
any model of language processing. A central issue in this volume is at
which level of the bilingual speaker's lexicon languages share representations
and how language-specific representations may be linked.
The contributors favor a dynamic, developmental perspective on bilingualism,
which takes account of the change of the mental lexicon over time and
pays considerable attention to the acquisition phase. Several papers deal
with the level of proficiency and its consequences for bilingual lexical
processing, as well as the effects of practice. This discussion raises
numerous questions about the notion of (lexical) proficiency and how this
can be established by objective standards, an area of study that invites
collaboration between researchers working from a theoretical and from
a practical background.
1993 — 307 Pages
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