Modeling Bilingualism -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction: From structure to chaos. Twenty years of modeling bilingualism -- Models and structures -- A dynamic view of language development -- References -- Part I. Multilingualism -- Psycholinguistic perspectives on language processing in bilinguals -- Bilingual language processing -- Developing L2 proficiency -- Cross-language activation in comprehension and production -- Bimodal bilingualism -- Bilingual word recognition studies in deaf children and deaf adults -- Understanding the nature of cross-language effects in bimodal bilinguals -- Research on hearing bimodal bilinguals -- The cognitive consequences of bilingualism -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Triggered codeswitching: Evidence from picture naming experiments -- Experiment 1: Cued language switching -- Experiment 2: Free language switching -- General discussion -- References -- Working memory capacity, inhibitory control, and proficiency in a second language -- Working memory -- Inhibitory control -- Working memory capacity and inhibition -- Language of working memory tests -- Research questions -- The study -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Appendix A -- Explanations of associations between L1 and L2 literacy skills -- Cummins' theory of common underlying proficiency -- Clarke's short-circuit hypothesis and Alderson's threshold hypotheses -- Studies published after Alderson (1984) and Cummins (1991a) -- Review of studies -- Studies using covariance structure analyses -- A theoretical account of the association between L1 and L2 literacy -- Language ability theory -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Part II. Language attrition -- The acquisition, attrition, and relearning of mission vocabulary.

Comparing the acquisition and attrition of mission vocabulary -- Savings in the relearning of mission vocabulary -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Second language attrition: Theory, research and challenges -- Quasi-longitudinal studies in second language attrition -- Features of second language attrition -- Rate of attrition, initial proficiency, and critical threshold -- A psycholinguistic model of bilingual processing in attrition -- Motivation and use in the study of second language retention -- Methodological issues in second language attrition research -- Retention of general and speaking proficiency in L2 (Irish) -- Conclusion -- References -- Contact x time: External factors and variability in L1 attrition -- Attrition and variability -- The study -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Appendix -- The shifting structure of emotion semantics across immigrant generations -- Semantic domains/cultural domains -- The two-dimensional model of the emotion domain and cross-cultural validation -- Replication of the two-dimensional model among bilinguals -- Individual and cultural differences in valence vs. arousal contrasts -- Predictions -- Sample -- Data collection -- Analysis -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part III. Language and aging -- Bilingualism, code-switching and aging -- Aging bilinguals in Australia -- The twin hypotheses -- The attrition paradigm -- Longitudinal study -- An alternative explanation? -- Bilingualism or L2 attrition? -- Attitudinal and paradigm shift in research -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Language reversion versus general cognitive decline -- Language reversion studies -- Cognitive aging and the brain -- Cognitive aging and the bilingual brain -- Survivor theory.

Towards a new taxonomy of language change in elderly immigrants -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV. DST -- A dynamic model of expert-novice co-adaptation during language learning and acquisition -- Dynamic systems theory in the context of socially mediated L2 acquisition -- Properties of complex dynamic systems -- A dynamic model of scaffolding in the context of L2-acquisition -- Social mediation as adaptation: The dynamics of novice-directed speech -- A conceptual and mathematical model of adaptation in learner- or child-directed speech -- L2 learning and the dynamics of concern-based action -- Conclusion -- References -- The dynamics of multilingualism: Levelt's speaking model revisited -- Levelt's model -- Adaptations to the model for bilingual production -- Adaptations necessary to the model for dynamic processing -- Conclusion -- References -- Epilogue: Twenty years of modeling bilingualism -- The language learning and teaching perspective -- The language attrition, maintenance and shift perspective -- The psycholinguistic perspective -- The language-policy perspective -- The measurement perspective -- An integrated perspective -- The dynamic systems perspective -- An attempt at analysing and integrating these perspectives -- The management perspective -- References -- Address for correspondence -- Index -- The series Studies in Bilingualism.