The Multilingual Mind: A Modular Processing Perspective

This book is the first detailed description of a particular theoretical framework for studying language development and language performance. The framework is called MOGUL (Modular On-line Growth and Use of Language). It has been the topic of numerous publications and presentations since the appearance of our 2004 keynote article in Bilingualism: Language & Cognition. MOGUL is not just about how a language grows in the individual child: it is about how the mind expands to accommodate more than one language both in childhood and later in life and how these various linguistic systems share space and interact--

• • Author: Michael Sharwood Smith, John Truscott
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: Feb 06, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 430 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 110704085X
• • ISBN-13: 9781107040854