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Eastern European Perspectives on Celtic Studies
This volume brings together contributions from a range of scholars, not only from the Celtic heartlands, but further afield such as Austria, Canada and Poland. The chapters are based upon a number of presentations on a wide range of Celtic Studies given at a conference in Poznań, Poland, in October 2014. The book, as such, emphasizes the international aspect of the field, and highlights the relatively strong position of Celtic Studies in Poland, through the inclusion of Polish scholars working on Irish and Breton, and by introducing an academic audience to the ‘conversation’ on Celtic matters which was held recently on Polish soil. Celtic Studies are currently undergoing a series of cha...
Advances in the Study of Bilingualism
This book provides a contemporary approach to the study of bilingualism. Drawing on contributions from leading experts in the field, this book brings together - in a single volume - a selection of the exciting work conducted as part of the programme of the ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice at Bangor University, Wales. Each chapter has as its main focus an exploration of the relationship between the two languages of a bilingual. Section by section, the authors draw on current findings and methodologies to explore the ways in which their research can address this question from a number of different perspectives.
Bilingual Grammar
An extended argument that bilingual speakers have an integrated linguistic competence, rather than two separate grammatical systems.
Bilingualism, Executive Function, and Beyond
The study of bilingualism has charted a dramatically new, important, and exciting course in the 21st century, benefiting from the integration in cognitive science of theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive psychology (especially work on the higher-level cognitive processes often called executive function or executive control). Current research, as exemplified in this book, advances the study of the effects of bilingualism on executive function by identifying many different ways of being bilingual, exploring the multiple facets of executive function, and developing and analyzing tasks that measure executive function. The papers in this volume (21 chapters), by leading researchers in bilingualism and cognition, investigate the mechanisms underlying the effects (or lack thereof) of bilingualism on cognition in children, adults, and the elderly. They take us beyond the standard, classical, black-and-white approach to the interplay between bilingualism and cognition by presenting new methods, new findings, and new interpretations.
More than Nature Needs
The human mind is an unlikely evolutionary adaptation. How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than anything a hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of evolutionary theory, saw humans as "divine exceptions" to natural selection. Darwin thought use of language might have shaped our sophisticated brains, but his hypothesis remained an intriguing guess--until now. Combining state-of-the-art research with forty years of writing and thinking about language evolution, Derek Bickerton convincingly resolves a crucial problem that both biology and the cognitive sciences have hitherto ignored or evaded. What evolved first w...
Code-switching – Experimental Answers to Theoretical Questions
This volume compiles eight original chapters dedicated to different topics within bilingual grammar and processing with special focus on code-switching. Three main features unify the contributions to this volume. First, they focus on making a contribution to our understanding of the human language within a coherent theoretical framework; second, they understand that a complete theory of the human language needs to include data from bilinguals’ I-languages; and third, they are committed to obtaining reliable data following experimental protocols.
Twenty Thousand Saints
Yn ystod un haf twym mae ynys sydd fel arfer yn wag yn cael ei thrawsnewid i fod yn gymuned brysur o dwristiaid, archeolegwyr, lleianod, gwylwyr dolffiniaid, criw teledu a dau awdur yn ysu am gael gafael mewn stori. Mae llyfr hwn yn gomedi du am ysbiwyr, preifatrwydd ac ymyrraeth, a sut mae'r pethau pwysicaf yn digwydd pan fydd y camera wedi ei ddiffodd. Cyhoeddwyd gyntaf yn 2008.One hot summer, an island which is practically empty except for twitchers, becomes a bustling community of tourists, archaeologists, nuns, dolphin-watchers, a reality TV crew and two writers bursting to tell a story. This is a black comedy about spies, privacy and intrusion ... and how the most important things happen off-camera. First published October 2008.
Criterion-Referenced Language Testing
Criterion-referenced Language Testing looks at the practical applications of this new area of language testing.
Quello di cui la natura non ha bisogno
Noto per aver formulato, in parallelo a Darwin, una teoria evoluzionistica «per selezione naturale», Alfred Wallace ne coglieva fin dall’inizio uno dei limiti principali: l’incapacità di spiegare perché la nostra specie abbia acquisito una mente «di gran lunga più potente» rispetto alle necessità adattative. Domanda ingombrante, a cui lo stesso Darwin tentava di rispondere ipotizzando che quella ridondanza cognitiva fosse l’esito «dell’uso continuo di un linguaggio perfetto». Congelato per oltre un secolo e riaffiorato solo negli ultimi anni, il «problema di Wallace» ha trovato infine una convincente soluzione in questo libro ammaliante e definitivo. Riconsiderando ...
