ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism

The 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism was held from April 30 to May 3, 2003, at Arizona State University. The proceedings includes 190 papers from the conference. They examine bilingualism around the world, discussing the nature and effects of bilingualism in individuals and families, classrooms, communities, and countries. The authors come from a wide range of fields: linguistics, education, psychology, sociology, biology, medicine, and public policy. Topics include linguistic development in bilingual children, codeswitching, language policy and ideology, bilingualism and the brain, language impairments, sociolinguistic studies of bilingual communities and migration, language shift and attrition, second language acquisition among children and adults, bilingualism in school settings, and much more.