2020/07/13 by Kees de Bot · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Business, Management and Accounting · #Second Language Learning and Teaching #Employee Welfare and Language Studies
paper · doi:10.4324/9781003060406-37
openalex publication_date 2020/07/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
The linguistic performance of bilinguals has been used to support syntactic theories — for example, Woolford&s;s study of government and binding and code-switching and White&s;s research into the relationship between Universal Grammar and second language acquisition — but there are no theories about the bilingual speaker that aim at a description of the entire language production process. This chapter gives a brief and global description of Levelt’s model, subsequently and considers how such a model should be adapted to make it suitable to describe the bilingual speaker, and finally some alternatives are presented for parts of the model. Levelt&s;s model aims at describing the normal, spontaneous language production of adults. It is a ‘steady-state’ model, and not a language learning model, and it hardly says anything about language perception. The first-language system is flexible enough to add an additional register to those already in existence.