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Code-blending and language control in bimodal bilinguals*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2015

GUOSHENG DING
GUOSHENG DING*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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Address for correspondence: Guosheng Ding, Ph.D., State Key Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience & Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China. [email protected]
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Bimodal bilinguals, the fluent users of a spoken and a signed language, occupy only a small proportion of the bilingual population. However, they provide a unique window into the cognitive and neural structures of language processing. In an article in this issue, Emmorey and colleagues carefully examined the recent empirical evidence from hearing bimodal bilinguals and presented clear and interesting discussion on the implications to our understanding of bilingual language organization and processing (Emmorey, Giezen & Gollan, Emmorey, Giezen & Gollan). Here I would like to add discussion on code-blending and language control in bimodal bilinguals.

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , March 2016 , pp. 246 - 247
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This work was supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC: 31170969) and the National Key Basic Research Program of China(2014CB846102).

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