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Part 1 Psycholinguistic aspects of bilingualism: individual bilingualism- societal and individual bilingualism, describing bilingualism,semilingualism; the study of bilingual children - early and latebilingualism, how does the child become bilingual?, types of bilinguals;patterns of bilingual language acquisition - the description of bilinguallanguage acquisition, phonological development, semantic and lexicaldevelopment; aspects of bilingual competence - the bilingual's linguisticcompetence, early bilingualism - one language or two?, the unitary languagesystem hypothesis; features of bilingual speech - interference, borrowing,individual creations; cognitive and educational aspects of bilingualism -contradictory research findings, bilingualism and cognitive functioning,overview of research on bilingualism and cognitive functioning;socio-cultural aspects of bilingualism - issues raised in the discussion ofbilingualism, views of bilingualism, psychological aspects. Part 2Sociolinguistic aspect of bilingualism: societal multilingualism -multilingualism in society, factors contributing towards societalmultilingualism, historical factors; language choice, language maintenanceand language shift - language choice, domain analysis - person, place andtopic, the socio-psychological approach - linguistic accommodation; languageand national identity - language and nationalism, basic concepts, languageand nationalism; linguistic minorities - indigenous minorities in WesternEurope, two main types of indigenous linguistic minorities, ethnic, regional,national and minority languages; case studies 1 the Alsations - the language,historical overview, the use of Alsatian; case studies 2 the Catalans -Catalonia and the Catalans, geographical and demographic overview, theCatalan language; case studies 3 migrant workers in the federal republic ofGermany; old and new minorities, indigenous minorities, refugees andreturning German minorities.