Multilingual Lexical Recognition in the Mental Lexicon of Third Language Users

1. Front Matter

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2. Beyond Bilingualism: Issues in Multilingualism

   • Weronika Szubko-Sitarek

   Pages 1-31

3. Modelling the Lexicon: Some General Considerations

   • Weronika Szubko-Sitarek

   Pages 33-66

4. Modelling Multilingual Representation and Processing

   • Weronika Szubko-Sitarek

   Pages 67-99

5. Visual Word Recognition in Multilinguals

   • Weronika Szubko-Sitarek

   Pages 101-127

6. Exploring the Cognate Facilitation Effect in Multilingual Word Recognition

   • Weronika Szubko-Sitarek

   Pages 129-167

7. Back Matter

   Pages 169-211

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The monograph constitutes an attempt to demonstrate that trilinguals should be considered as learners and speakers in their own right as opposed to L2 learners with a view to enumerating consequences this would bring to third or additional language teaching. Its theoretical part offers an insight into the structure of the multilingual mental lexicon which is a product of the interplay of a whole array of cross-linguistic factors in the minds of multilingual speakers. The empirical part reports the findings of an empirical study which aimed to investigate connections which are formed between multiple languages in a multilingual mind. All the aspects, analyzed in the experiments are part of a broader question of how multilinguals make their lexical decisions and, more specifically, how they recognize words from different languages. The book closes with the discussion of the role of the obtained results for multilingual didactics as well as some possible areas for future research.

• Cognate Facilitation Effect
• Mental Lexicon
• Multilingualism
• Nonselective Lexical Access
• Trilingualism

• Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, Institute of English University of Lodz Poland, Łódź, Poland

  Weronika Szubko-Sitarek

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