The Mysteries of Bilingualism. Francois Grosjean
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Author Biography
François Grosjean is Professor Emeritus of Psycholinguistics at Neuchâtel University, Switzerland. His publications on bilingualism include many articles and chapters as well as seven books: Life with Two Languages: An Introduction to Bilingualism (1982), Studying Bilinguals (2008), Bilingual: Life and Reality (2010), The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism (with Ping Li; 2013), The Listening Bilingual: Speech Perception, Comprehension, and Bilingualism (with Krista Byers-Heinlein, 2018), Life as a Bilingual (2021), and Parler plusieurs langues: Le monde des bilingues (2015). He is a Founding Editor of the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition and was its first Coordinating Editor. In 2019 he published his autobiography, A Journey in Languages and Cultures: The Life of a Bicultural Bilingual.
Introduction
Every field of study has issues that remain unresolved, and the field of bilingualism is no exception. Over the years, as I was involved in research on bilinguals or writing about them, I would earmark questions that I needed to come back to at some point. Among these were: Who is bilingual given that there is such a discrepancy in definitions? How many bilinguals are there?