This book is unique because it explores the multilingual lexicon by providing insights from research studies conducted in psycholinguistics, applied linguistics and neurolinguistics. It goes beyond the use of two languages and thus concentrates on a new and developing area in linguistic research. The different perspectives provide a link to the mainstream work on the lexicon and vocabulary acquisition and will stimulate further debate in these areas and in the study of multilingualism.

This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.

For "classic" linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints,...

This book is unique because it explores the multilingual lexicon by providing insights from research studies conducted in psycholinguistics, applied linguistics and neurolinguistics. It goes beyond the use of two languages and thus concentrates on a new and developing area in linguistic research. The different perspectives provide a link to the mainstream work on the lexicon and vocabulary acquisition and will stimulate further debate in these areas and in the study of multilingualism.

Fremdsprachenlernende produzieren in jedem Stadium ihrer Sprachbeherrschung Fehler. Diese Fehler sind unterschiedlicher Art und Herkunft, unter anderem gehen sie zuruck auf den Einfluss anderer Sprachen. In dieser Untersuchung geht es um den Einfluss, den das Englische als erste Fremdsprache auf deutsche Produktionen nimmt bei Deutschstudierenden, die keine indoeuropaische Muttersprache haben. Diese Interaktion zwischen den beiden Fremdsprachen wird untersucht, die Arten der Interaktion kategorisiert, und die Ergebnisse werden eingebettet in Vorschlage zur Optimierung des universitaren...