1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics provides a comprehensive discussion of a wide range of neurocognitive and neurobiological scientific research about learning second or additional languages. It is a one-of-a-kind centralized resource that brings together research that is typically found in disperse publication venues.
Eminent global scholars from various disciplines synthesize and cross-fertilize current and past neural research about second language through systematic, in-depth, and timely chapters that discuss cores issues for understanding the neurocognition of second language learning, representation, and processing. Handbook sections provide overviews of extant and emerging neuroscience methods, syntheses of neurocognitive research on second language syntax, morphosyntax, lexicon, phonology, and pragmatics, and up-to-date descriptions of theoretical approaches of the neural basis of second language learning. The volume provides additional sections that synthesize research on a variety of topics including factors that affect the neurocognition of second language, the neural mechanisms underlying second language learning, individual differences in the neurocognition of second language, as well as research on understudied languages and populations, such as sign language, child second language learners, and individuals with aphasia.
This handbook will be an indispensable resource to scholars and students across a wide range of disciplines, including those interested in second language acquisition, applied linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience, and research methodology. It should facilitate transformative connections between ideas and disciplines and lead to informative and productive paths for future research.
List of Contributors
1. Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics: A Synthesis of Perspectives
Janet G. van Hell and Kara Morgan-Short
Part I - Methodological Approaches for Neurolinguistic Examination of Second Language
2. Using Time-Based Encephalography to Investigate Second Language
Danielle S. Dickson and Eric Pelzl
3. Using Quantitative Encephalography (qEEG) to Investigate Second Language learning
Malayka Mottarella and Chantel S. Prat
4. Using Functional Neuroimaging to Investigate Second Language Organization
Shanna Kousaie and Denise Klein
5. Using Structural Neuroimaging to Investigate Second Language
Eleonora Rossi, Toms Voits, and Vincent DeLuca
6. Using Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation to Investigate Second Language
Nick Pandža
Part II - The Neurolinguistics of Second Language Learning, Representation, and Processing
7. The Neurolinguistics of Second Language Phonology: A View of Phonemic Contrast Learning
Emily Myers and Pamela Fuhrmeister
8. The Neurolinguistics of the Second Language Lexico-Semantic System
Natasha Tokowicz and Victoria Tkacikova
9. The Neurolinguistics of the Second Language Morphological System: The Role of Grammar-Related and Speaker-Related Factors
Nicoletta Biondo, Nicola Molinaro, and Simona Mancini
10. The Neurolinguistics of the Second Language Syntactic System
José Alemán Bañon, Robert Fiorentino, and Alison Gabriele
11. The Neurolinguistics of the Second Language Pragmatic System
Francesca M. M. Citron
Part III - Neurolinguistic Theories and Models of Second Language
12. How the Declarative and Procedural Memory Brain Circuits Support Second Language: Electrophysiological, Neuroimaging, and Neurological Evidence
Michael T. Ullman and Kara Morgan-Short
13. Neurolinguistic Methods and Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
David Miller, Vincent DeLuca, Kyle Swanson, and Jason Rothman
14. Second Language Acquisition and Neuroplasticity: Insights from the Dynamic Restructuring Model
Michal Korenar and Christos Pliatsikas
15. Linguistic Relativity and Second Language: How Learning a Second Language May Reshape Cognition
Aina Casaponsa and Guillaume Thierry
16. Neurocognition of Social Learning of Second Language: How Can Second Language be Learned as First Language?
Hyeonjeong Jeong and Ping Li
Part IV - Underlying Factors and Individual Differences in the Neurocognition of Second Language
17. Genetic Factors in Second Language Neurocognition
Kelly A. Vaughn, Anushka Oak, and Arturo E. Hernandez
18. Age and Proficiency in Second Language Neurocognition
Lauren A. Fromont
19. De-generacy as an Organizing Principle of Bilingual Language Processing: Evidence from Brain and Behavior
Anne L. Beatty-Martínez and Debra A. Titone
20. Factors Accounting for Individual Differences in Second Language Neurocognition
Alicia Luque and Lauren Covey
21. Cross-Linguistic Transfer in Second Language Neurocognition
Laura Sabourin and Gabrielle Manning
22. Second Language Neurocognition and First Language Attrition
Merel Keijzer and Bregtje Seton
23. First Language/Second Language Crosslinguistic Influence on Third Language Acquisition via Neurocognitive Memory Systems
Emily Shimeng Xu and Patrick Chun Man Wong
Part VI - The Neurocognition of Second Language Learning: Mechanisms and Contexts
24. The Neurocognition of Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning
Edith Kaan
25. Feedback in Second Language Neurocognition
Sybrine Bultena
26. Memory Consolidation in Second Language Neurocognition
Clara Eckerdt, Atsuko Takashima, and James M. McQueen
27. Context of Learning in Second Language Neurocognition
Harriet Wood Bowden and Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg
28. Embodied Second Language Processing and Learning from a Neurocognitive Perspective
Ana Zappa and Cheryl Frenck-Mestre
Part VII - Selective Topics in the Neurocognition of Second Language
29. The Neurocognition of Foreign Accent Perception
Sendy Caffara, Leah Gosselin, Trisha Thomas and Clara D. Martin
30. Decision Making and Second Language Neurocognition
Alice Foucart
31. Cognitive Control in Second Language Neurocognition
Taomei Guo and Fengyang Ma
32. The Neurocognition of Child Second Language Development
Valeria Ortiz-Villalobos, Ioulia Kovelman, and Teresa Satterfield
33. The Neurocognition of Learning a Second Language in the Visual-Manual Modality
Gabriela Meade
34. Aphasia, Rehabilitation, and Second Language Neurocognition
Michael Scimeca, Erin Carpenter, and Swathi Kiran
Index
Biography
Kara Morgan-Short is Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA. She directs the Cognition of Second Language Acquisition laboratory, has served as Associate Editor of the journal Language Learning, and has won undergraduate and graduate teaching and mentoring awards.
Janet G. van Hell is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Linguistics and Director of the Center for Language Science at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. She has served as Editor of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology, and has received excellence in graduate student and postdoc mentoring awards.
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics is a useful resource for novices and experts alike. It provides a comprehensive compilation of expert reviews of up-to-date academic research on theoretical and methodological aspects of SLA at the intersection of neurocognition and neurolinguistics.
Professor Viorica Marian, Northwestern University, USA
This volume is an invaluable, one-of-a-kind, one-stop resource for anyone interested in the neurobiological and neurocognitive bases of the acquisition of additional languages. The editors have made a titanic effort to include a wide range of methods, levels of linguistic analysis, languages, and populations, as motivated by cross-disciplinary perspectives.
Professor Cristina Sanz, Georgetown University, USA
This impressive handbook provides an authoritative in-depth overview of how cognitive neuroscience has expanded our understanding of how the brain supports the acquisition and processing of a second or third language. It is a highly recommended resource for students and scholars – and for anyone interested in how a bilingual brain works.
Professor Karsten Steinhauer, McGill University, Canada
