ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |13 pages
Overview
part I|70 pages
Methodological Approaches for Neurolinguistic Examination of Second Language
part II|78 pages
The Neurolinguistics of Second Language Learning, Representation, and Processing
chapter 7|14 pages
The Neurolinguistics of Second Language Phonology
chapter 9|18 pages
The Neurolinguistics of the Second Language Morphological System
part III|67 pages
Neurolinguistic Theories and Models of Second Language
chapter 12|12 pages
How the Declarative and Procedural Memory Brain Circuits Support Second Language
chapter 14|13 pages
Second Language Acquisition and Neuroplasticity
chapter 15|13 pages
Linguistic Relativity and Second Language
chapter 16|13 pages
Neurocognition of Social Learning of Second Language
part IV|56 pages
Underlying Factors and Individual Differences in the Neurocognition of Second Language
chapter 19|14 pages
De-generacy as an Organizing Principle of Bilingual Language Processing
part V|39 pages
Second Language in Relation to the Neurocognition of First Language and Additional Languages
part VI|67 pages
The Neurocognition of Second Language Learning
part VII|80 pages
Selective Topics in the Neurocognition of Second Language