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Bilingualism is in dire need of formal models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2002

Ping Li
Ping Li
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Each year the Cognitive Science Society honors David Rumelhart by awarding the Rumelhart Prize to an outstanding cognitive scientist whose research makes a significant contribution to the formal analysis of human cognition. Formal models of language, including those of Rumelhart and his associates, are well known to psycholinguists in the monolingual context. The formalism of language in the bilingual context, however, is lamentable: to this date, there are only a handful of models (connectionist or otherwise) that are designed specifically to account for bilingual language processing and acquisition (cf. Li and Farkas, 2002). BIA is one of them. BIA+ is now another.

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , December 2002 , pp. 213
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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