The complexity-cost factor in bilingualism
- Language processing changes with the knowledge and use of two languages. The advantage of being bilingual comes at the expense of increased processing demands and processing costs. I suggest considering bilingual complexity including these demands and costs. The proposed model claims effortless monolingual processing. By integrating individual and situational variability, the model would lose its idealistic touch, even for monolinguals.
| Author details: | Julia FestmanORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X12002579 |
| ISSN: | 0140-525X |
| ISSN: | 1469-1825 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Behavioral and brain sciences : an international journal of current research and theory with open peer commentary |
| Publisher: | Cambridge Univ. Press |
| Place of publishing: | New York |
| Publication type: | Preprint |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2013 |
| Publication year: | 2013 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Number of pages: | 2 |
| First page: | 355 |
| Last Page: | 356 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
