Advances in the Study of Bilingualism

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Contributors


Hunydd Andrews a former Research Officer at the ESRC Centre for
Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice at Bangor University, now
works for the Welsh Language Commissioner. Her research interests include
bilingual education and adult language learning, particularly in the context
of lesser-used languages. She has a trilingual background, speaking Irish,
Welsh and English.


Katja F. Cantone is currently Associate Professor for German as Second and
Foreign Language at the University of Duisburg-Essen, and Research Associate
at the ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice at
Bangor University. Her main research interests are bilingual language acquisi-
tion, code-switching and bilingual schooling.


Diana Carter a former Post-Doctoral Researcher at the ESRC Centre for
Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice at Bangor University, became
a Post-Doctoral Linguistics Researcher and instructor in the Department of
French, Italian and Spanish at the University of Calgary in Canada before
obtaining a tenure-track position at the University of British Columbia. Her
main research interests include bilingual speech production and lexical
representation.


M. Carmen Parafita Couto a former Project Researcher at the ESRC Centre
for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice at Bangor University, is
currently Lecturer at Leiden University following a position as a Lecturer in
the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Strathclyde
(Glasgow). She studies the impact of bilingualism and language contact on
language structure.


Peredur Davies is Lecturer in Welsh Linguistics in the School of Linguistics
and English Language at Bangor University, teaching primarily through the
medium of Welsh. Formerly he was part of the AHRC-funded Bangor research

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