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New perspectives on cross-linguistic influence: Language and cognition - Vivian Cook & Benedetta Bassetti (eds.), Language and bilingual cognition. New York and Hove, UK: Psychology Press (2011). Pp. xi +581. ISBN 978-1-84872-924-7 (hardback). - ZhaoHong Han & Teresa Cadierno (eds.), Linguistic relativity in SLA: Thinking for speaking. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters (2010). Pp. xi + 212. ISBN 978-1-84769-277-1 (hardback). - Scott Jarvis & Aneta Pavlenko, Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition. New York and Abingdon, UK: Routledge (2008). Pp. xi + 275. ISBN 978-0-80583-885-5 (hardback). - Aneta Pavlenko (ed.), Thinking and speaking in two languages. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters (2011). Pp. ix + 264. ISBN 978-1-84769-366-5 (paperback).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2012

Marcelyn Oostendorp
Marcelyn Oostendorp*
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Language Teaching , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , July 2012 , pp. 389 - 398
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