The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics)

The ability to speak two or more languages is a common human experience, whether for children born into bilingual families, young people enrolled in foreign language classes, or mature and older adults learning and using more than one language to meet life's needs and desires. This Handbook offers a developmentally oriented and socially contextualized survey of research into individual bilingualism, comprising the learning, use and, as the case may be, unlearning of two or more spoken and signed languages and language varieties. A wide range of topics is covered, from ideologies, policy, the law, and economics, to exposure and input, language education, measurement of bilingual abilities, attrition and forgetting, and giftedness in bilinguals. Also explored are cross- and intra-disciplinary connections with psychology, clinical linguistics, second language acquisition, education, cognitive science, neurolinguistics, contact linguistics, and sign language research. Becoming bilingual in early childhood / Ludovica Serratrice -- Bilingualism from childhood through adolescence / Martha Bigelow and Penelope Collins -- Young bilingual adults / Kellie Goncalves -- Bilingualism in midlife / David Singleton and Simone E. Pfenninger -- Language and older bilinguals / Mira Goral -- Ideologies of language, bilingualism, and monolingualism / Janet M. Fuller -- Bilingualism and the law / Philipp S. Angermeyer -- Language planning and policies for bilingualism / Joseph Lo Bianco -- The economics of bilingualism / Francois Grin -- The nature of exposure and input in early bilingualism / Sharon Armon-Lotem and Natalia Meir -- Becoming bilingual through additive immersive programs / Maria Juan-Garau and Roy Lyster -- Foreign language learning from early childhood to young adulthood / Carmen Munoz and Nina Spada -- Supporting bilingualism in adult first generation migrants / James Simpson -- Unlearning and relearning of languages from childhood to later adulthood / Merel Keijzer and Kees de Bot -- The measurement of bilingual abilities / Jeanine Treffers-Daller -- Highly proficient and gifted bilinguals / Adriana Biedron and David Birdsong -- Language choice in bilingual interaction / Annick De Houwer -- First language attrition : from bilingual to monolingual proficiency? / Barbara Kopke -- Bilingualism in clinical linguistics / Carol Scheffner Hammer and Lisa A. Edmonds -- Doing and undoing bilingualism in education / Ofelia Garcia and Ruanni Tupas -- Second language acquisition as a road to bilingualism / Lourdes Ortega -- Bilingualism in cognitive science: the characteristics and consequences of -- Bilingual language control / Kenneth R. Paap -- Bilingualism in neurolinguistics: from static to dynamic approaches / Arturo E. Hernandez -- Bilingualism and sign language research / Gladys Tang and Felix Sze -- Bilingualism and bidialectalism / Jean-Pierre Chevrot and Anna Ghimenton -- Bilingualism and language contact / Suzanne Aalberse and Pieter Muysken -- Bilingualism and multilingualism / Suzanne Quay and Simona Montanari Front Matter Dedication Contents Figures and Tables Contributors Acknowledgements Common Abbreviations Introduction 1 - Becoming Bilingual in Early Childhood 2 - Bilingualism from Childhood through Adolescence 3 - Young Bilingual Adults 4 - Bilingualism in Midlife 5 - Language and Older Bilinguals 6 - Ideologies of Language, Bilingualism, and Monolingualism 7 - Bilingualism and the Law 8 - Language Planning and Policies for Bilingualism 9 - The Economics of Bilingualism 10 - The Nature of Exposure and Input in Early Bilingualism 11 - Becoming Bilingual through Additive Immersive Programs 12 - Foreign Language Learning from Early Childhood to Young Adulthood 13 - Supporting Bilingualism in Adult First Generation Migrants 14 - Unlearning and Relearning of Languages from Childhood 15 - The Measurement of Bilingual Abilities 16 - Highly Proficient and Gifted Bilinguals 17 - Language Choice in Bilingual Interaction 18 - First Language Attrition 19 - Bilingualism in Clinical Linguistics 20 - Doing and Undoing Bilingualism in Education 21 - Second Language Acquisition as a Road to Bilingualism 22 - Bilingualism in Cognitice Science 23 - Bilingualism in Neurolinguistics 24 - Bilingualism and Sign Language Research 25 - Bilingualism and Bidialectalism 26 - Bilingualism and Language Contact 27 - Bilingualism and Multilingualism References Language Index Index of Place Names Subject Index "Many children are born into families where parents speak different languages to them. Karin was born in Portugal and taken care of at home by her mother, who spoke Portuguese to her. Karin's father spoke Swedish to her from the start, but was usually not home during the day. As a young infant Karin was very happy to have her father come home after work and play with her. At around age 4 months, something changed. As usual, Karin would be in her mother's arms when father came home, and mother spoke to her husband in Swedish. But for a few weeks, Karin did not immediately show her usual joy at her father's homecoming. Instead, she "froze up" and looked at her mother's mouth with a disquieted frown, and refused to cuddle either parent until her attention was led away to something else (Cruz-Ferreira, 2006, p. 62; two other infants described by Cruz-Ferreira showed the same pattern at around the same age)"-- Provided by publisher