Designing Research on Bilingual Development

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Monika S. Schmid

   Pages 1-12

3. Multi-factorial Studies: Populations and Linguistic Features

   • Monika S. Schmid

   Pages 13-28

4. The Multi-lab, Multi-language, Multi-method Challenge

   • Bregtje J. Seton, Laurie A. Stowe

   Pages 29-36

5. Collecting and Analyzing Spontaneous Speech Data

   • Christopher Bergmann

   Pages 37-53

6. Eye-Tracking and the Visual World Paradigm

   • Sanne M. Berends, Susanne M. Brouwer, Simone A. Sprenger

   Pages 55-80

7. EEG and Event-Related Brain Potentials

   • Nienke Meulman, Bregtje J. Seton, Laurie A. Stowe, Monika S. Schmid

   Pages 81-107

This volume offers an in-depth description and discussion of research design for a large-scale investigation of bilingual development. It introduces and justifies a range of theoretical and methodological innovations, discusses some of the problems that come with these and proposes practical solutions. The present volume introduces a research design intended to capture a wide range of linguistic data, elicited by means of behavioral tasks, neuroimageing data and free speech from both second language learners and first language attriters of two languages (Dutch and German) representing a wide range of language combinations and ages of onset. Gathering and analyzing such a range of data comes with a multiplicity of problems, many of them linked to the fact that similar tests have to be designed across a range of languages and measurements will have to occur in various locations. The current volume presents a research design appropriate to these questions, discussing the methodological challenges of such a study. It offers advice on how to construct experimental materials which are parallel across different languages set up a protocol for additional measures which can be applied across a wide range of participants combine data from different labs when using different ERP equipment and different eyetrackers.

• Analysis of large datasets in second language acquisition
• Cognitive and neuroimaging experimental measures
• Construction of experimental materials in L2
• EEG technique
• ERP
• Eyetracking
• First language attrition
• Grammatical gender
• Large datasets in bilingual development
• Measuring proficiency in free speech
• Methodology for linguistic research
• Neurolinguistic investigation of bilingualism
• P600/N400
• Research protocols for bilingualism
• Second language acquisition

• Centre for Research in Language Development throughout the Lifespan (LaDeLi),Dept. of Language & Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom

  Monika S. Schmid

• Center for Language and Cognition, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

  Sanne M. Berends, Christopher Bergmann, Nienke Meulman, Bregtje J. Seton, Simone A. Sprenger, Laurie A. Stowe

• Department of Special Education: Cognitive and Motor Disabilitie, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Susanne M. Brouwer

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