A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism Perspectives of Change in Psycholinguistics

The model presented in this volume draws together various strands of research - second language acquisition theory, bilingualism research, dynamic systems theory – to develop a novel approach to this challenging subject. Its main focus lies on the psycholinguistic dynamics of multilingualism, the processes of change in time affecting two or more language systems.

Philip Herdina is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He has published on the methodology of linguistics and literature, theory of grammar and multilingualism and is also the co-author of a bilingual philosophical dictionary Ulrike Jessner is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the same university. She has published on psycholinguistic issues in the fields of first and second language acquisition, multilingualism and gender issues