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MULTILINGUAL COGNITION AND LANGUAGE USE: PROCESSING AND TYPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES. Luna Filipovic and Martin Pütz (Eds.) . Amsterdam, the Netherlands : Benjamins , 2014. Pp. x + 337.
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By taking typological and processing approaches to studying multilingualism, Filipovic and Pütz present an important and timely set of peer-reviewed papers selected from The 35th International LAUD Symposium. The result is an array of 12 high-quality contributions plus an introductory chapter by the editors that serves to foreshadow and contextualize the main themes of the book. The 12 studies are divided across two parts and are dedicated to exploring either typological (Part 1) or processing (Part 2) perspectives of multilingual language use.
Part 1 consists of seven contributions. The first offers an overview of methodological advances in linguistic relativity research. Lucy outlines discussions that identify key methodological challenges along with insightful ways of addressing and overcoming them. The second, a study by Calude and Pagel, uses corpora from 18 languages to investigate the use of basic vocabulary items across different languages and language families. The results of their...