21G.024
The Linguistic Study of Bilingualism
See description under subject 24.906[J] . Enrollment limited.
Fall 2012 · Linguistic Studies of Bilingualism
Topics
- Introduction
- Definitions, guiding principles and assumptions
- The bilingual and bilingual processing
- Grammar of code-switching
- The bilingual brain
- Sociolinguistic dimensions of bilingualism
- Cognitive benefits, bilingual education, language policies
- Class presentations
Readings
- [BR] = Wei, Li, ed. The Bilingualism Reader . 2nd ed. Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 9780415355551.
- ———. “Knowledge of Language as a Focus of Inquiry.” Chapter 1 in Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use . Praeger, 1986. ISBN: 9780275917616.
- [BR] Volterra, Virginia, and Traute Taeschner. Chapter 13: The acquisition and development of language by bilingual children.
- [BR] Genesee, Fred. Chapter 14: Early bilingual language development: one language or two?
- [BR] Meisel, Jürgen M. Chapter 15: Code-switching in young bilingual children: the acquisition of grammatical constraints.
- [BR] Green, David W. Chapter 16: Control, activation, and resource: a framework and model for the control of speech in bilinguals.
- [BR] Grosjean, François. Chapter 19: The bilingual’s language modes.
- [BR] Kroll, Judith F., and Annette M. B. de Groot. Chapter 18: Lexical and conceptual memory in the bilingual: Mapping form to meaning in two languages.
- [BR] Poplack, Shana. Chapter 10: Sometimes I’ll start a sentence in Spanish y termino en español: toward a typology of code-switching.
- [BR] Myers-Scotton, Carol, and Janice L. Jake. Chapter 11: Matching lemmas in a bilingual language competence and production model: evidence from intrasentential code-switching.
- [BR] Muysken, Pieter. Chapter 12: Code-switching and grammatical theory.
- [BR] Obler, Loraine K., Robert J. Zatorre, et al. Chapter 20: Cerebral lateralization in bilinguals: methodological issues.
- [BR] Paradis, Michel. Chapter 21: Language lateralization in bilinguals: enough already!
- [BR] Abutalebi, Jubin, Stefano F. Cappa, and Daniela Perani. Chapter 22: The bilingual brain as revealed by functional neuroimaging.
- [BR] Ferguson, Charles A. Chapter 1: Diglossia.
- [BR] Fishman, Joshua A. Chapter 2: Bilingualism with and without diglossia; diglossia with and without bilingualism.
- [BR] ———. Chapter 3: Who speaks what language to whom and when?
- [BR] Blom, Jan-Petter, and John J. Gumperz. Chapter 4: Social meaning in linguistic structure: code-switching in Norway.
- [BR] Auer, Peter. Chapter 6: The pragmatics of code-switching: a sequential approach.
- [BR] Heller, Monica. Chapter 8: Code-switching and the politics of language.
- Mohanty, Ajit. “Multilingualism Education in India.” Chapter 12 in Bilingual Education: Encyclopedia of Language and Education . Edited by Nancy H. Hornberger. Vol. 5. Edited by Jim Cummins and Nancy H. Hornberger. Springer, 2010. ISBN: 9789048193127.
- Ochs, Elinor, and Bambi Schieffelin. “Language Socialization: An Overview.” Chapter 1 in Language Socialization: Encyclopedia of Language and Education . Edited by Nancy H. Hornberger. Vol. 8. Edited by Patricia A. Duff and Nancy H. Hornberger. Springer, 2010. ISBN: 9789048194667.
- Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove. “Language Rights and Bilingual Education.” Chapter 9 in Bilingual Education: Encyclopedia of Language and Education . Edited by Nancy H. Hornberger. Vol. 5. Edited by Jim Cummins and Nancy H. Hornberger. Springer, 2010. ISBN: 9789048193127.
- The textbook for this course is:
- Wei, Li, ed. The Bilingualism Reader . 2nd ed. Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 9780415355551.
Prerequisites & course information
Same subject as 24.906[J] Prereq: 24.900 , 24.9000 , or permission of instructor U (Fall) 3-0-9 units. HASS-S; CI-H
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2012
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