{"product_id":"9781316287088","title":"Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World: Linguistic and Cognitive Perspectives","description":"Bilingualism has given rise to significant changes in Spanish-speaking countries. In the US, the increasing importance of Spanish has engendered an English-only movement; in Peru, contact between Spanish and Quechua has brought about language change; and in Iberia, speakers of Basque, Galician and Catalan have made their languages a compulsory part of school curricula and local government. This book provides an introduction to bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world, looking at topics such as language contact, bilingual societies, bilingualism in schools, code-switching, language transfer, the emergence of new varieties of Spanish, and language choice - and how all of these phenomena affect the linguistic and cognitive development of the speaker. Using examples and case studies drawn primarily from Spanish\/English bilinguals in the US, Spanish\/Quechua bilinguals in Peru and Spanish\/Basque bilinguals in Spain, it provides diverse perspectives on the experience of being bilingual in distinct cultural, political and socioeconomic contexts.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121912463600,"sku":"9781316287088","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781316287088_p0.jpg?v=1763706830","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781316287088","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}