The Listening Bilingual: Speech Perception and Comprehension in Bilinguals.

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Title Page ......Page 5 Copyright Page......Page 6 Contents......Page 7 Author Biographies......Page 10 Introduction......Page 13 Introduction......Page 16 General Aspects of Bilingualism......Page 17 Bilingual Children......Page 25 References......Page 33 Introduction......Page 37 From the Speech Wave to the Mental Representation......Page 38 Processing in Bilingual Adults......Page 41 Processing in Bilingual Children......Page 45 References......Page 49 Part I Speech Processing in Adults ......Page 53 Perception of Speech Segments by Bilinguals......Page 55 Factors Affecting Bilinguals’ Speech Perception......Page 60 Theories of Cross‐Language Speech Perception......Page 66 The Role of Suprasegmentals in Speech Perception......Page 70 Future Challenges and Directions......Page 72 References......Page 73 Introduction......Page 77 How Does Word Recognition Take Place and How Do Bilinguals Fare?......Page 78 Language Proficiency, Use and History......Page 79 Lower Level Information......Page 83 Processing Mechanisms and Strategies......Page 85 The Activation of Candidates......Page 89 Summary......Page 94 References......Page 95 Auditory Sentence Comprehension: Stages and Principles......Page 98 Syntactic Analysis......Page 102 Processing the Meaning of Words......Page 109 Syntactic Integration and Revision......Page 114 Discussion and Conclusion......Page 115 Summary......Page 116 References......Page 117 Introduction......Page 121 Does the Perception of Spoken Code‐Switches Take Extra Time?......Page 122 The Recognition of Guest Words......Page 127 The Processing of Interferences......Page 135 References......Page 138 Issues in Bilingual Assessment......Page 141 Word Recognition......Page 143 Word Frequency and Familiarity......Page 146 Recognition of Connected Speech......Page 149 Factors That Affect Assessment of Speech Perception in Bilinguals......Page 152 Summary......Page 156 References......Page 157 Part II Speech Processing in Children ......Page 163 Introduction......Page 165 Simultaneous Bilingual Infants......Page 166 Child L2 Learners......Page 178 Summary......Page 183 References......Page 184 Finding Words in the Speech Stream......Page 188 Learning New Words......Page 191 Recognizing Familiar Words......Page 196 The Role of Speech Perception in Learning and Recognizing Words......Page 199 Bilingual Children’s Vocabulary......Page 202 References......Page 206 Introduction......Page 211 Asymmetries Between Comprehension and Production......Page 213 Real-Time Processing ......Page 217 Cross-Linguistic Influence ......Page 219 Input and Exposure......Page 226 Summary......Page 228 References......Page 229 Defining Language Impairment......Page 232 Phonological Perception and Word Learning......Page 233 Challenges in Assessment of Bilingual Children......Page 235 Assessment of Single Word Knowledge......Page 239 Assessment of Semantic Knowledge......Page 245 Summary......Page 248 References......Page 249 Index......Page 256 EULA......Page 266