Bilingualism and minority languages in Europe : current trends and developments / edited by Fraser Lauchlan and Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto.

"This collection considers such issues as the cognitive, linguistic and emotional benefits of speaking two languages, the perceptions, attitudes and issues relating to identity in minority language areas, and the number of grammatical aspects amongst those who speak these minority languages. Th...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Lauchlan, Fraser (Editor), Couto, M. Carmen Parafita (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Bilingualism and minority languages: the current context in Europe / Fraser Lauchlan and M. del Carmen Parafita Couto
  • Section A: Attitudes, identity and perceptions towards minority languages
  • 2 Contesting the conventionalising of Castilian: the role of Galician parents as counter-elites / Anik Nandi and Ashvin I. Devasundaram
  • 3 Practitioner engagement with research in minority language contexts: evidence from research regarding Gaelic medium education / Sarah MacQuarrie and Fiona Lyon
  • 4 Extralinguistic factors influencing the pronounciation of English by Welsh-English bilinguals / Charles Wilson and Margaret Deuchar
  • 5 Modeling the life and death of cometing languages within populations of speakers from a physical and mathematical perspective / Luís F. Seoane and Jorge Mira
  • 6 Attitudes amongst children and thei parents to speaking and learning a minority language in school: perspectives from Scotland and Sardinia / Fraser Lauchlan, Marinella Parisi and Roberta Fadda
  • Section B: The benefits of being bilingual in minority language areas
  • 7 The linguistic, cognitive and emotional advantages of minority language bilingualism / Nia E. Young Mirain Rhys, Ivan A. Kennedy and Enlli M. Thomas
  • 8 Language balance and cognitive advantages in Frisian-Dutch bilingual children / Evelyn Bosma, Elma Blom and Arjen Versloot
  • Section C: Grammatical aspects amongst bilinguals and multilinguals in minority language areas
  • 9 The nominal domain in Dutch-Papiamento-Spanish multilinguals in the Netherlands / M Carmen Parafita Couto, Rócio Pérez-Tattam and Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes
  • 10 Subject advantage in the production of relative clauses by Basque speakers in contact with Spanish / Maria José Ezeizabarrena and Amaia Munarriz
  • 11 Early minority language acquirers of Spanish exhibit focus-related interface asymmetries: word order alternation and optionality in Spanish-Catalan, Spanish-Galician and Spanish-English bilinguals / Timothy Gupton
  • 12 Testing alternative theoretical accounts of code-switching using event-related brain potentials: a pilot study on Welsh-English / M Carmen Parafita Couto, Bastien Boutonnet, Noriko Hoshino, Peredur Davies, Margaret Deuchar and Guillaume Thierry
  • 13 Bilingual grammard and the formation of a new language in a minority language setting / Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes and Acrisio Pires.