A bilingual person, in a broad definition, is one who can communicate in more than one language, be it actively or passively. More specifically, the terms bilingual and trilingual are used to describe comparable situations in which two or three languages are involved. This book gathers research from around the globe in this field.

Preface; Cultural and Linguistic Influence on Developmental Neural Basis of Theory of Mind and Self-Construal: Whorfian Hypothesis Revisited; Language Processing in Bimodal Bilinguals; Psycholinguistic Challenges in Processing Arabic Language; Neurocognitive Aspects of Processing Arabic and Hebrew; Visual Word Access in Monolinguals and Bilinguals in English and Spanish; Vowels in Semetic Alphabet Languages; Bilingualism and Hispanic American Intelligence Test Scores; Language Development through a Bilingual Lens; Improving Reading Skills for ESL Learners Using SoundSpel; A Novel Transliteration Approach in an English-Arabic Cross Language Information Retrieval System; Methods for Cross-Language Information Retrieval; Index.