Speech Production and Second Language Acquisition
Speech Production and Second Language Acquisition by Judit Kormos, published by Psychology Press in 2006, offers a comprehensive overview of the intersection between cognitive science and second language acquisition. This 221-page volume is the first in the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition series and presents a new integrative model for understanding how second language speech is produced. The book aims to make cognitive science theories accessible to those studying second language acquisition, focusing on the nuances of speech production as a distinct subfield within cognitive science.
Readers will find a thorough examination of bilingual speech production, grounded in first language research from cognitive science and psycholinguistics. The text provides a clear introduction to the bilingual lexicon and its significance in spoken language performance. Designed as a tutorial resource, this book serves as a supplementary textbook for undergraduates and graduate students in cognitive science, applied linguistics, and language pedagogy, making it a valuable addition to academic programs in these fields.
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This extremely up-to-date book, Speech Production and Second Language Acquisition, is the first volume in the exciting new series, Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition. This new volume provides a thorough overview of the field and proposes a new integrative model of how L2 speech is produced.
The study of speech production is its own subfield within cognitive science. One of the aims of this new book, as is true of the series, is to make cognitive science theory accessible to second language acquisition. Speech Production and Second Language Acquisition examines how research on second language and bilingual speech production can be grounded in L1 research conducted in cognitive science and in psycholinguistics. Highlighted is a coherent and straightforward introduction to the bilingual lexicon and its role in spoken language performance.
Like the rest of the series, Speech Production and Second Language Acquisition is tutorial in style, intended as a supplementary textbook for undergraduates and graduate students in programs of cognitive science, second language acquisition, applied linguistics, and language pedagogy.
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