Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editors and contributors vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Multilingual contrasts: Interfaces and integrations
7. Methodological approaches in the study of linguistic relativity 17
8. Frequency of use and basic vocabulary 45
9. A contrastive study of colour terms in French and German causal constructions 73
10. Compound verbs in English and Bulgarian and the relativity debate 97
11. HERE, NEAR, FAR 121
12. Cognitive maps of landmark orientation 151
13. Is space-time metaphorical mapping universal? 183
14. Part II. Bilingual processing: Language representation and language use
15. Efficiency of the bilingual mind 205
16. About phonological, grammatical, and semantic accents in bilinguals’ language use and their cause 229
17. Aging and bilingual processing 263
18. L1-based prototypicality effects in L2 vocabulary learning 287
19. Finding a wooden jandal in the jandal wood 309
20. Name index 333
21. Subject index 335
22. Language index 337