ABSTRACT
WHILE RESEARCH INTO BILINGUALISM increased dramatically in the 1980s, there was remarkably little research aimed at the development of a model of bilingualism. The linguistic performance of bilinguals has been used to support syntactic theories-for example, Woolford’s (1983) study of government and binding and code-switching and White’s research into the relationship between Universal Grammar and second language acquisition (1989) —but there are no theories about the bilingual speaker that aim at a description of the entire language production process. There are of course partial descriptions of the process, as in Krashen’s Monitor theory (1981), Bialystok’s Analysis/Control approach (Bialystok, 1990), and the global description of the production process in Færch and Kasper (1986), but a full model which covers the whole process from message generation to articulation is still lacking.
