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What happens in the brain when learning a second language? Can
speaking more than one language provide cognitive benefits over a
lifetime? What implications does an increase in bilingualism have
for society? And what are the factors that can promote and support
bilingualism in children and adults? This book – a translated and
adapted version of Il Cervello Bilingue (2020) - answers these
questions and more, providing the reader with a comprehensive yet
concise guide on different topics related to bilingualism. Based on
the results of the most recent studies conducted internationally,
it discusses recent research findings, explains terminology, and
elaborates on the current state of the field, with the aim of
providing families and society with suggestions about how to
encourage bilingualism. Written in an engaging and accessible
style, it takes both academics and readers with no prior knowledge
of the field on a journey into the bilingual brain.
What happens in the brain when learning a second language? Can
speaking more than one language provide cognitive benefits over a
lifetime? What implications does an increase in bilingualism have
for society? And what are the factors that can promote and support
bilingualism in children and adults? This book – a translated and
adapted version of Il Cervello Bilingue (2020) - answers these
questions and more, providing the reader with a comprehensive yet
concise guide on different topics related to bilingualism. Based on
the results of the most recent studies conducted internationally,
it discusses recent research findings, explains terminology, and
elaborates on the current state of the field, with the aim of
providing families and society with suggestions about how to
encourage bilingualism. Written in an engaging and accessible
style, it takes both academics and readers with no prior knowledge
of the field on a journey into the bilingual brain.
An important development in linguistic models is the shift from
construction-oriented rules to elementary computations that
generate complex grammatical expressions.In this monograph, the
author presents a systematic linguistic examination of an Italian
aphasic speaker focusing on locality conditions as configurational
restrictions on syntactic computations and on functional elements
as fundamental triggers for computational processes.The explanatory
framework which has been adopted considers the grammar to be an
integral part of language processing; it is a derivational model
compatible with well-known parsing strategies such as the minimal
link condition and the minimal chain principle. This approach to
aphasia supports the hypothesis that linguistic deficit is an
impoverishment of procedural capacities that manifests itself in
reduced syntactic structures.The book is recommended for advanced
undergraduates and graduate students in neurolinguistics,
psycholinguistics and theoretical linguistics, as well as medical
researchers and speech therapists interested in the same fields. It
can be adopted as principal text for the specific domain (syntax
and aphasia).
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